Exercise 9.1: Opening Page Designer

The first step is to locate the inquiry.jsp file and to start Page Designer. In Page Designer you will link the page to a cascading style sheet that comes as a sample with the workbench.

To open the Web perspective:

  1. In the workbench, open the Web perspective:

    You should now have the Project Explorer in your workbench.
    Web project with input.jsp file

  2. Expand the WSSLABxx web project.
  3. Expand the Web Content folder.
  4. Right-click inquiry.jsp and click Open on the pop-up menu.
    Page Designer showing the Design page

    The Page Designer appears in the upper right pane of the workbench and shows the inquiry.jsp page as the Web Interaction wizard created it.

    Make sure that you are on the Design page in Page Designer.

  5. Click the Design tab.

You have located the Web application input page and started Page Designer and now you are ready to begin Exercise 9.2: Working with page properties.