Databases and other sources of dynamic content provide you with more power and flexibility in searching, sorting, and viewing large stores of information. Using a database to store content for web sites makes sense when you need to store large amounts of information, and then retrieve and display that information in a meaningful way. Dreamweaver provides you with several tools and prebuilt behaviors to help you effectively retrieve and display information stored in a database. The following sections describe the Dreamweaver server behaviors and formatting elements, and how you can use them to display dynamic content.

This section covers the following conceptual topics:

• Server behaviors and formatting elements
• Applying typographic and page layout elements to dynamic data
• Navigating database recordset results
• Custom recordset navigation bars
• Displaying and hiding regions based on recordset results
• Displaying multiple recordset results
• Record counters