How to drag component from data control palette and drop in a line of text?

Hi,
I am using JDeveloper 10.1.3.4 and get frustrated with my attempt to drag a component from the data control palette and drop it in a line of text in a .jspx page. What I need to accomplish is to display a line of text to the use on a page:
Get clearance for the Spring 2009 semester.This is a line of static text except "Spring 2009" is the {color:green}Term{color} attribute of a view object dragged from the data control palette. I found that if I try to type some text on a page, as soon as I create a new line, a <f:verbatim> is created. So when I tryped the first part of the text, the code is:
<f:verbatim>

 Get clearance for the

</f:verbatim>Then drag-and-drop the bound data from the data control palette:
<f:verbatim>

 Get clearance for the
 <af:outputText value="#{bindings.Term.inputValue}"
 binding="#{backing_student_printOrQuit.outputText6}"
 id="outputText6"/>

</f:verbatim>And then add the last word:
<f:verbatim>

 Get clearance for the
 <af:outputText value="#{bindings.Term.inputValue}"
 binding="#{backing_student_printOrQuit.outputText6}"
 id="outputText6"/> term.

</f:verbatim>This looks OK in the Source tab. But in the Design tab the bound data jumps above the text line. Both the bound data and the <f:verbatim> appear to be block elements in the page. And so is it when the line is displayed in the browser:
Spring 2009
Get clearance for the term.How to overcome this problem?
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Newman

Shay,
Waht a surprise! Just now I had already finished typing the posting to tell that it did not work. I tried changing the original code to
<f:verbatim>

Get clearance for the #{bindings.Term.inputValue} term.

</f:verbatim>and got the display:
Get clearance for the #{bindings.Term.inputValue} term.I tried various ways, putting single quotes around the whole expression in single quotes, around part of it, using square brackets, ... I was going to click the "Post Message" button, but gave it one last try:
<f:verbatim>

Get clearance for the ${bindings.Term.inputValue} term.

</f:verbatim>and I got it! --
Get clearance for the Spring 2009 term.It was my gut feeling that I was quite close because the dot-separated hierarchy {color:green}bindings.Term.inputValue{color} looks right, only some tiny bit in syntax narrowly missing it. I was lucky.
Thank you for the suggestion!
Newman

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