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Building pages that restrict access to your site (ColdFusion, ASP, JSP, PHP)

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Letting users log in

You add an HTML form to the page to let users log in by entering a user name and password.

To let users log in: 

1.

Create a new page (File > New) and lay out your login page using the Dreamweaver design 
tools.

2.

Add an HTML form by placing the insertion point where you want the form to appear and 
choosing Form from the Insert menu.

An empty form is created on the page. You may have to enable Invisible Elements (View > 
Visual Aids > Invisible Elements) to see the form’s boundaries, which are represented by 
thin red lines.

3.

Name the HTML form by clicking the 

<form>

 tag at the bottom of the Document window 

to select the form, opening the Property inspector (Window > Properties), and entering a 
name in the Form Name text box.

You don’t have to specify an 

action

 or 

method

 attribute for the form to tell it where and 

how to send the record data when the user clicks the Submit button. The Log In User 
server behavior sets these attributes for you (see 

4.

Add a user name and a password text field (Insert > Form > Text Field) to the form.

Add labels (either as text or images) beside each text field, and line up the text fields by 
placing them inside an HTML table and setting the table’s 

border

 attribute to 0.

5.

Add a Submit button to the form (Insert > Form > Button).

You can change the label of the Submit button by selecting the button, opening the 
Property inspector (Window > Properties), and entering a new value in the Label text box.

The next step in building a login page is to add the Log In User server behavior to make sure 
the entered user name and password are valid. 

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