Macromedia Dreamweaver behaviors allow visitors to interact with a Web page, to change the page in various ways, or to cause certain tasks to be performed. A behavior is a combination of an event with an action triggered by that event. In the Behaviors panel, you add a behavior to a page by specifying an action and then specifying the event that triggers that action.
For example, if you want a Web page to open in a new browser window when your user clicks a link, you can use a behavior to achieve this effect. The behavior is made up of the (onClick) event and the Open Browser Window action.
Following are the five most commonly-used Dreamweaver behaviors:
For more information on any of the above behaviors, see Chapter 18 "Using Behaviors" of the Using Dreamweaver 4 manual, or Dreamweaver Help (Help > Using Dreamweaver).
Jon Michael Varese
Jon Michael Varese is a technical writer for Instructional Media Design at Macromedia.
24 September 2001
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