Turning off Form
Delimiter, for example, removes the dashed line that surrounds a form in the Document window.
You may have noticed that the PHP, ColdFusion, Active Server Page, and .NET tags are combined
into one symbol, Server Markup tags. Dreamweaver??™s capability to handle dynamic
pages generated by databases makes these invisible elements essential. I generally leave the Nonvisual Server
Markup Tags option unchecked, because these icons flag server-side coding in the page and tend to interrupt
the flow of the design.
Dreamweaver-developed pages often include references to dynamic text. Dynamic text is replaced by an entry
from a recordset when the page is processed by the application server. Dreamweaver uses what is called dot
notation in programming circles to fully display these names, such as {rsMaillist.EmailAddress},
enclosed in curly braces. When designing a page, the field names may be longer than the actual data, and the
full dot notation becomes a visual hindrance rather than an aid. In these situations, you may want to use
Dreamweaver??™s alternative dynamic text syntax, an empty pair of curly braces: {}. Enable this option from
the Show Dynamic Text As drop-down list on the Invisible Elements panel.
When designing dynamic sites you may often use server-side includes to speed development and updates.
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