Operation Manual

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USING DREAMWEAVER
Building forms
Last updated 3/28/2012
2 Change the control’s properties in the Property inspector.
For more information, click the Help icon in the Property inspector.
3 To set more properties, click the Display Tag Editor button in the Property inspector and set the properties in the
Tag editor that appears.
Validate ColdFusion form data
You can build ColdFusion forms in Dreamweaver that check the contents of specified fields to ensure the user entered
the correct data type.
Note: This enhancement is available only if you have access to a computer running ColdFusion MX 7 or later.
1 Create a ColdFusion form that includes at least one input field and one Submit button. Ensure that every
ColdFusion field that you want to validate has a unique name.
2 Select a field in the form that you want to validate.
3 In the Property inspector, specify how you want to validate the field.
The lower part of each input Property inspector contains controls to help you define the specific validation rule. For
example, you might want to specify that a text field should contain a telephone number. To do this, select Telephone
from the Value pop-up menu in the Property inspector. You can also specify when to validate from the Validate At
pop-up menu.