The Stop button remains active only while Dreamweaver is
transitioning into Live Data view.
Making changes in Live Data
If a feature in a software program can be said to have a raison d??™etre, then modifying the layout must surely
be the raison d??™etre of Live Data. When in Live Data view, new elements??”dynamic or static??”can be added
and existing ones adjusted or removed entirely. Anything, including the dynamic data, can be formatted or
styled using HTML or CSS.
Live Data view solves the thorny challenges of laying out a table without resorting to a time-consuming
trial-and-error approach. For instance, varying lengths of data in the same column often complicate designing
table layout with dynamic data. If, for example, the sample data includes a last name field that is 12
characters long and the real data contains a hyphenated name that is 25 characters long, you have a problem.
When working in Live Data view, you can see the entire page as it would be generated on the server,
including dynamic elements and repeating table rows (see Figure 22-5).
The Live Data toolbar includes a Refresh button that, when clicked, resends your application to the server
for processing and then redisplays the page in the Document window. The Refresh option is valuable in the
following circumstances:
n Information from the data source is reassessed.
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