When using your email, you need to put your account number and password into forms; when you want to reply to an article in blogs, you also need put in some information. But do you know how to create this section? In Dreamweaver8.0, we can use forms to achieve this impact. The form is to connect the website with visitors, by which we can collect the visitors’ information and communicate with the visitors adequately. Now let us learn how to add forms to the web pages.
Step1:set focus to the right position— which you want to add a form. Select INSERT—FORM—FORM command, inserting the form. Or you can click the button in the COMMON menu. Open the Properties inspector set a name to the form. Here we set it as Big1
Step2: set the cursor to the Big1 form. Select the INSERT—TABLE command, inserting an eight-row and two-column table. In the Properties inspector, set the CellPad as 5, Cellspace as 1, Align as Center.
Step3; select the first row in the table, and merge cells. Put your text in it. Set the cursor to the second row and the first column, then putting Name in it. Put your cursor in to the second row and the second column, select the INSERT—FORM—TEXT FIELD command, inserting text field. Set its properties as the following picture showing
Step4: set the password form. But pay attention to the text filed properties. Set Type in Password. And fill the next row. Put telephone number and text filed in the forth row.
Step5: If you need to put a lot of contents. You may have to use a text area. We set focus on the last row to create a “more information” text area. Select the INSERT—FORM—TEXT AREA, inserting the text area. Select the text area, setting the Type as Multiline.
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