Dreamweaver CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

14. Building Pages with Dynamic Elements

In This Chapter

What Is Spry? 374

Adding Spry Elements 376

Using the Menu Bar Widget 378

Using the Tabbed Panels Widget 382

Using the Accordion Widget 384

Using the Collapsible Panel Widget 386

Validating Forms with Spry 388

Adding Spry Tooltips 393

Adding Spry Effects 395

Using the Adobe Widget Browser 397

Using Widgets 399

Putting It All Together 400

One foundation of “Web 2.0” is widespread user interactivity enabled by extensive use of CSS and JavaScript. This allows applications that run inside a Web browser to offer the kind of responsiveness that was once reserved for native applications.

In Dreamweaver CS3, Adobe added a library of widgets to enable Web builders to make their sites look like ...