10. Place your cursor in the second cell of the top row, and, from the Forms category of the Insert bar,
choose Text Field.
11. With the text field still selected, enter searchField in the Property inspector??™s Name field.
12. Place your cursor in the second row, directly beneath the text field and, from the Insert bar,
choose Button to add it to the page.
13. With the button selected, enter the term Search in the Property inspector??™s Value field.
Building a Search Page
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14. Save your page.
In the next technique, you build the results page to accompany this search page.
Establishing Dynamic Form Elements
Forms and form elements play a much larger role in Web applications than just filtering recordsets. Forms
are also necessary for inserting new records in a data source as well as for updating existing records.
Dreamweaver lets you convert standard form elements into dynamic ones so that they can reflect and modify
a record??™s data.
Although the general conversion from a static to a dynamic form element is handled in the same fashion for
all elements??”by applying a Dynamic Form Elements server behavior to an existing form element??”almost
every element has different dialog boxes with varying parameters.
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