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Server behaviors and formatting elements
Dreamweaver provides the following server behaviors and formatting elements to let you enhance
the display of dynamic data:
Formats
let you apply different types of numerical, monetary, date/time, and percentage values to
dynamic text.
For example, if the price of an item in a recordset reads 10.989, you can display the price on the
page as $10.99 by selecting the Dreamweaver "Currency - 2 Decimal Places" format. This format
displays a number using two decimal places. If the number has more than two decimal places, the
data format rounds the number to the closest decimal. If the number has no decimal places, the
data format adds a decimal point and two zeros.
Repeated Region
and let you specify the number of records to display per page.
Recordset Navigation
move to the next or previous set of records returned by the recordset. For example, if you choose
to display 10 records per page using the Repeated Region server object, and the recordset returns
40 records, you can navigate through the records 10 at a time.
Recordset Status Bar
within a set of records relative to the total number of records returned.
Show Region
server behaviors let you choose to show or hide items on the page based on the
relevance of the currently displayed records. For example, if a user has navigated to the last record
in a recordset, you can hide the "next" link, and display only the "previous" records link.
Applying typographic and page layout elements to dynamic data
A powerful feature of Dreamweaver is the ability to present dynamic data within a structured
page, and to apply typographic formatting using HTML and CSS. To apply formats to dynamic
data in Dreamweaver, format the tables and placeholders for the dynamic data using the
Dreamweaver formatting tools. When the data is inserted from its data source, it will
automatically adopt the font, paragraph, and table formatting you specified.
To learn about Dreamweaver formatting features, and how to apply them to dynamic data
elements, see Chapter 8, "Presenting Content with Tables," on page 163
"Inserting and Formatting Text," on page
Navigating database recordset results
Recordset navigation links let users move from one record to the next, or from one set of records
to the next. For example, after designing a page to display five records at a time, you might want
to add links such as "Next" or "Previous" that let users display the five next or previous records.
Dreamweaver lets you create four types of navigation links to move through a recordset: First,
Previous, Next, and Last. A single page can contain any number of these links, provided they all
work on a single recordset. You can't add links to move through a second recordset on the
same page.
Note: Microsoft ASP.NET refers to a recordset as a DataSet. If you are working with ASP.NET
document types, the dialog boxes and menu choices specific to ASP.NET use the label DataSet. The
Dreamweaver documentation generically refers to both types as recordsets, but uses DataSet when
specifically describing ASP.NET features.
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server behaviors let you display multiple items returned from a database query,
server behaviors let you insert navigation elements that allow users to
server behaviors let you include a counter that shows users where they are
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and Chapter 13,