Apple WebObjects 3.5 - Manual (Page 21)

Creating the Page’s Content
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• Structures . Use these buttons to create paragraphs, lists, images, and
other static HTML elements. This setting is the default.
• Tables . Use these buttons to create and manipulate HTML table
elements.
• Dynamic form elements . Use these buttons to create form elements in
which users enter information. WebObjects gives your application
access to the data entered by users by allowing you to associate, or
bind ,
these elements to variables in your application.
• Other WebObjects . Use these buttons to create other dynamic elements,
which you can bind to variables and methods in your program to control
how they are displayed. Some of these (such as hyperlinks) have direct
HTML equivalents. Others are
abstract dynamic elements , such as
repetitions and conditionals, which determine how many times an
element is displayed or whether it is displayed at all.
Entering Static Text
The simplest way to add text to a page is to type it directly into the
component’s window. To demonstrate this, add a title for the GuestBook’s
page.
1. Type My Guest Book and press Enter.
The text is displayed at the insertion point, in this case at the
beginning of the page.
2. Select the text you just typed.
3. Click the button in the toolbar. This converts the text to a heading
element and displays it in bold.
4. From the pop-up list in the toolbar, choose center justification.
The toolbar also has buttons that allow you to apply text styles such as
bold, underline, and italics.
HTML provides several levels of headings. Typically, a document’s main
title should be displayed as an
heading. To change the level, you use
the Inspector window. You’ll use this window frequently throughout these
tutorials.