Spry Widgets are pre-built components that allow the visitor to interact with your web site, they are a kind of link.
see also Links instruction page
With Dreamweaver you can add a number of Spry Widgets to your pages, including XML-driven lists and tables, accordions, tabbed interfaces and more.
Some kinds of widgets:
A Menu Bar widget
is a set of navigational menu buttons that display submenus when a site visitor hovers over one of the buttons. Menu Bars let you display a large amount of navigational information in a compact space, and also give visitors to the site a sense of what is available on the site without having to browse it extensively
A Tabbed Panels widget
is a set of panels that can store content in a compact space. Site viewers hide or reveal the content stored in the Tabbed Panels by clicking the tab of the panel they want to access. The panels of the widget open accordingly as the visitor clicks different tabs. In a Tabbed Panels widget, only one content panel is open at a given time.
An Accordion widget
is a set of collapsible panels that can store a large amount of content in a compact space. Site visitors hide or reveal the content stored in the accordion by clicking the tab of the panel. The panels of the accordion expand or contract accordingly as the visitor clicks different tabs.
A Collapsible Panel widget
is a panel that can store content in a compact space. Users hide or reveal the content stored in the Collapsible Panel by clicking the tab of the widget.
To insert a widget
insert > Spry and select the widget to insert
When you insert a widget, DW automatically includes the necessary Spry Javascript and CSS files in your site when you save the page. (Note: you can also insert widgets by using the Spry category in the Insert bar.)
Example:
Menu bar with three choices that each have sub-menus leading to other pages.
to add items in the bar
select it, then select again from the Tag bar: the properties inspector bar changes.
Select Item 1 and in the box write in the name.
Select Item 1.1 and write in its name, continue with other items. To add more click on + sign. To delete items, select and press -(minus) sign.
Continue with next item and its sub-items.
The items you are putting in are then made into links to other pages.
Other widgets have similar means of putting in menus and sub-menus.