David Powers
Last updated on
16 May 2021
- Dreamweaver User Guide
- Introduction
- Dreamweaver and Creative Cloud
- Dreamweaver workspaces and views
- Set up sites
- About Dreamweaver sites
- Set up a local version of your site
- Connect to a publishing server
- Set up a testing server
- Import and export Dreamweaver site settings
- Bring existing websites from a remote server to your local site root
- Accessibility features in Dreamweaver
- Advanced settings
- Set site preferences for transferring files
- Specify proxy server settings in Dreamweaver
- Synchronize Dreamweaver settings with Creative Cloud
- Using Git in Dreamweaver
- Manage files
- Create and open files
- Manage files and folders
- Getting and putting files to and from your server
- Check in and check out files
- Synchronize files
- Compare files for differences
- Cloak files and folders in your Dreamweaver site
- Enable Design Notes for Dreamweaver sites
- Preventing potential Gatekeeper exploit
- Layout and design
- CSS
- Understand Cascading Style Sheets
- Laying out pages using CSS Designer
- Using CSS preprocessors in Dreamweaver
- How to set CSS Style preferences in Dreamweaver
- Move CSS rules in Dreamweaver
- Convert inline CSS to a CSS rule in Dreamweaver
- Work with div tags
- Apply gradients to background
- Create and edit CSS3 transition effects in Dreamweaver
- Format code
- Page content and assets
- Set page properties
- Set CSS heading properties and CSS link properties
- Work with text
- Find and replace text, tags, and attributes
- DOM panel
- Edit in Live View
- Encoding documents in Dreamweaver
- Select and view elements in the Document window
- Set text properties in the Property inspector
- Spell check a web page
- Using horizontal rules in Dreamweaver
- Add and modify font combinations in Dreamweaver
- Work with assets
- Insert and update dates in Dreamweaver
- Create and manage favorite assets in Dreamweaver
- Insert and edit images in Dreamweaver
- Add media objects
- Adding videos in Dreamweaver
- Insert HTML5 video
- Insert SWF files
- Add audio effects
- Insert HTML5 audio in Dreamweaver
- Work with library items
- Using Arabic and Hebrew text in Dreamweaver
- Linking and navigation
- jQuery widgets and effects
- Coding websites
- About coding in Dreamweaver
- Coding environment in Dreamweaver
- Set coding preferences
- Customize code coloring
- Write and edit code
- Code hinting and code completion
- Collapse and expand code
- Reuse code with snippets
- Lint code
- Optimize code
- Edit code in Design view
- Work with head content for pages
- Insert server-side includes in Dreamweaver
- Using tag libraries in Dreamweaver
- Importing custom tags into Dreamweaver
- Use JavaScript behaviors (general instructions)
- Apply built-in JavaScript behaviors
- About XML and XSLT
- Perform server-side XSL transformations in Dreamweaver
- Performing client-side XSL transformations in Dreamweaver
- Add character entities for XSLT in Dreamweaver
- Format code
- Cross-product workflows
- Installing and using extensions to Dreamweaver
- In-App updates in Dreamweaver
- Insert Microsoft Office documents in Dreamweaver (Windows only)
- Working with Fireworks and Dreamweaver
- Edit content in Dreamweaver sites using Contribute
- Dreamweaver-Business Catalyst integration
- Create personalized email campaigns
- Templates
- About Dreamweaver templates
- Recognizing templates and template-based documents
- Create a Dreamweaver template
- Create editable regions in templates
- Create repeating regions and tables in Dreamweaver
- Use optional regions in templates
- Define editable tag attributes in Dreamweaver
- How to create nested templates in Dreamweaver
- Edit, update, and delete templates
- Export and import xml content in Dreamweaver
- Apply or remove a template from an existing document
- Edit content in Dreamweaver templates
- Syntax rules for template tags in Dreamweaver
- Set highlighting preferences for template regions
- Benefits of using templates in Dreamweaver
- Mobile and multiscreen
- Dynamic sites, pages and web forms
- Understand web applications
- Set up your computer for application development
- Troubleshoot database connections
- Removing connection scripts in Dreamweaver
- Design dynamic pages
- Dynamic content sources overview
- Define sources of dynamic content
- Add dynamic content to pages
- Changing dynamic content in Dreamweaver
- Display database records
- Provide and troubleshoot live data in Dreamweaver
- Add custom server behaviors in Dreamweaver
- Building forms using Dreamweaver
- Use forms to collect information from users
- Create and enable ColdFusion forms in Dreamweaver
- Create web forms
- Enhanced HTML5 support for form elements
- Develop a form using Dreamweaver
- Building applications visually
- Build master and detail pages in Dreamweaver
- Build search and results pages
- Build a record insert page
- Build an update record page in Dreamweaver
- Building record delete pages in Dreamweaver
- Use ASP commands to modify database in Dreamweaver
- Build a registration page
- Build a login page
- Build a page that only authorized users can access
- Securing folders in Coldfusion using Dreamweaver
- Using ColdFusion components in Dreamweaver
- Test, preview, and publish websites
- Troubleshooting
In line with continued support for HTML5 in Dreamweaver, new attributes have been introduced for some form elements. In addition, four new HTML5 form elements have been introduced.
You can locate the form elements in the Insert panel. Select Window > Insert. In the Insert panel menu, select Forms.
Revised Forms workflow in Dreamweaver
Revised Forms workflow in the Dreamweaver 12.1 update.
New attributes common to form elements
The following new attributes are common to all form elements:
- Disabled: Select this option if you want the browser to disable the element
- Required: Select this option if you want the browser to check if a value has been specified
- Auto complete: Select this option to auto fill values when user enters information in a browser.
- Auto focus: Select this option if you want the focus to be on this element when browser loads the page.
- Read only: Select this option to set the value of the element to read-only.
- Form: Specifies one or more forms to which an <input> element belongs.
- Name: Unique name used to reference the element in the code.
- Place holder: Hint that describes the expected value of an input field
- Pattern: Regular expression against which the element's value is validated.
- Title: Extra information about an element. Displayed as a tool tip.
- Tab Index: Specifies the position of the current element in the tab order for the current document.
Form elements with modified attributes
- Form No Validate: Select this option to disable form validation. This selection overrides the No Validate attribute at form level.
- Form Enc Type: A MIME type with which a user agent is meant to associate this element for form submission.
- Form Target: A browsing context name or keyword that represents the target of the control.
- Accept charset: Specifies the character encodings used for form submission.
Note:
The links for attributes contain information on all attributes listed in the HTML5 specifications. Not all these attributes are present in the Properties panel. You can use the code view to add attributes not present in the panel.
HTML5 form elements
Form element | Available in | Description | Description of attributes |
Color | 12.2 | For input fields that should contain a color. | http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/input.color.html |
Date | 12.2 | Control that helps the user select a date. | http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/input.date.html |
Date Time | 12.2 | Allows the user to select a date and time (with the time zone). | http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/input.datetime.html |
Date Time Local | 12.2 | Allows the user to select a date and time (no time zone) | http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/input.datetime-local.html |
Month | 12.2 | Allows the user to select a month and year. | http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/input.month.html |
Number | 12.2 | For fields that should contain only numbers. | http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/input.number.html |
Range | 12.2 | For fields that should contain values from a range of numbers. | http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/input.range.html |
Time | 12.2 | Allows the user to select a time. | http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/input.time.html |
Week | 12.2 | Allows the user to select a week and year. | http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/input.week.html |
12.1 | A control for editing a list of email addresses given in the element’s value. | http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/input.email.html | |
Search | 12.1 | A one-line plain-text edit control for entering one or more search terms. | http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/input.search.html |
Telephone (Tel) | 12.1 | A one-line plain-text edit control for entering a telephone number. | http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/input.tel.html |
URL | 12.1 | A control for editing an absolute URL given in the element’s value. | http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/input.url.html |