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Drag a template from the Assets panel onto a detail page to quickly change the look-and-feel of a generated document.
Getting Values from a Form
Next to clicking on links, a user??™s prime interaction with a Web page is through the form. Forms are used in
almost every Web application in one form (minor pun intended) or another. A Web page that is gathering
information from a user always contains a form that uses a variety of elements, such as text fields, checkboxes,
radio buttons, and drop-down lists. Although forms are important to Web applications, not every
page containing a form needs to be executed by an application server. You can, however, pass information
from a form to a dynamic page.
In the earlier discussions of master-detail Web applications, the master page was always generated by the
developer??™s recordset selection without any user input. This section examines how you can develop userdriven
master pages in Dreamweaver. Here are the four key elements:
n A static HTML page containing a form. (Although it??™s possible to use a dynamic page, none of
what this page accomplishes requires server-side code.
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