Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Unleashed- P30: The good news is Dreamweaver provides numerous windows, panels, inspectors, and toolbars for streamlining the way you build websites. The bad news, unfortunately, is that Dreamweaver provides numerous windows, panels, inspectors, and toolbars for streamlining the way you build websites. Why so many windows, panels, and so on, Dreamweaver is unprecedented in the feature set it provides, allowing developers complete control when building websites and applications | Working with Spry Widgets Just when you thought that Spry lists and tables were the way to go for data presentation Dreamweaver introduces other flexible and powerful design components called widgets. Widgets which combine HTML CSS and JavaScript provide another option when you re designing interactive fast-loading layouts and working with form validation. Widgets included with this release of Dreamweaver include the following Spry Validation Text Field Select Checkbox and Textarea Spry Menu Bar Spry Tabbed Panels Spry Accordion Spry Collapsible Panel Although we ll cover some of these controls in depth in the meantime you can get an idea as to how the validation widgets work by visiting the following URL technologies spry demos formsvalidation . Additionally you can get a sneak peek at the Spry Accordion in action by visiting the following URL technologies spry demos products . The widgets share common characteristics. They re extremely user friendly engaging and more importantly they enhance the aesthetic appeal of your sites. From a development standpoint widgets are easy to use. Typically they re simple to include because they re just dragged and dropped onto the page. On the page their properties can be manipulated via the Property inspector and their appearance can be customized through associated CSS rules making them easy to integrate into any CSS-based site. Validating Form Fields In Chapter 10 you looked at a powerful behavior called Validate Form. This behavior allows you to add functionality to a web page that instructs the browser to prevent submission of a form if a user fails to enter a value into a form field. Additionally you were able to check for numeric inputs numeric ranges and email address inputs. I made mention of the fact that despite its obvious benefit the behavior was severely limited in the features that it allows you to validate. For instance the Validate Form behavior doesn t allow .
