Use interactivity and animation in your web pages to give visitors feedback as they move and click, to capture visitors' interest, to demonstrate concepts, to validate form data without contacting the server—in short, to let visitors see and do more without leaving the page.
There are several ways to add interactivity and animation to your pages using Dreamweaver:
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Use behaviors to perform tasks in response to specific events, such as highlighting a button when the user passes over it with the mouse, validating a form when the user clicks the Submit button, or opening a second browser window when the main page is finished loading. See Behaviors overview. |
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Use timelines to create animations that do not require plugins, ActiveX controls, or Java. Timelines use dynamic HTML to change the position of a layer or the source of an image over time or to call behavior actions automatically after the page has loaded. See Animating with dynamic HTML. |
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Use Java applets, Shockwave movies, Flash Player movies, or any other ActiveX controls or Netscape plugins in a page to add self-contained movies, interactive navigation schemes, and other multimedia elements to your page. See Adding movies, applets, and other multimedia elements. |