Dreamweaver - I don't want to have a problem but now I have one

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I don't want to have a problem but now I have one

extravaganza_

2004-04-30, 4:30 am

I am working with several other people on a class project. Instead of starting
from scratch I am modifying code that someone else created. I am doing layers
and tables with the idea that I have a scrollbar built into my table.
http://elattice.extravaganzadesign.com/pages/design.htm
When I view this on IE 5.2 for Mac I get a scrollbar for my page and it
scrolls down the length of my layer which does not have visible overflow.
Then when I look at it using Safari it looks fine but I get this annoying hole
in my tr in the table above where the background shows through.
I won't even begin to describe the horrors I witnessed when I previewed my
page on a PC but at least those are all problems that I know how to fix.
Does anyone have any idea where these two Mac related problems are coming from?

extravaganza_

2004-04-30, 4:30 am

After doing some more research I realize now that I shouldn't put a layer
inside a table. All that I was doing was trying to follow a tutorial at
http://www.dyn-web.com/dhtml/scroll for doing scrolling layers within a table.
How was I to know what a sad and lonely path they were sending me on. Really.
How was I to know.
Oh well. No one answered my question and I guess I deserved it. I figured out
the other part of my question. So I have everything taken care of and all
wrapped up.
Wish there were more tutorials for how to do scrolling layers besides those
darn people at dyn-web who led me so terribly astray.

Osgood

2004-04-30, 4:30 am

extravaganza_ wrote:
> After doing some more research I realize now that I shouldn't put a layer
> inside a table. All that I was doing was trying to follow a tutorial at
> http://www.dyn-web.com/dhtml/scroll for doing scrolling layers within a table.
> How was I to know what a sad and lonely path they were sending me on. Really.
> How was I to know.
> Oh well. No one answered my question and I guess I deserved it. I figured out
> the other part of my question. So I have everything taken care of and all
> wrapped up.
> Wish there were more tutorials for how to do scrolling layers besides those
> darn people at dyn-web who led me so terribly astray.
>
The gap is being cause by your doctype plus you have no heights set on
the navigation images.

Changing the doc type and specifing heights for your nav inages will
resolve the gap problem.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>

For an exellent tutorial on how to create a scrolling layer go to
www.projectseven.com, look under the tutorials tab for vertical scroller.

Once you have built the vertical scroller, insert a relatively
positioned layer into your table then copy all the scroller layers and
paste them into the relatively positioned one.

Your relatively positioned layer wil take its co-ordinates from the
top/left of the table or table cell in which you insert it.

Built your scroller with the parent layer having top and left
co-ordinates of 0. This will make it easier for when you come to paste
all the layer that make-up the scroller into the relatively positioned
one. If you built the scroller with top/left positions of anything else
than 0 then you will have to change them when you paste into the
relatively positioned one.

extravaganza_

2004-04-30, 4:30 am

Thank you quite kindly! I will give this a try!

extravaganza_

2004-04-30, 5:31 pm

I am about to undertake this PVII tutorial on scrollbar. I am scared because
for me it still involves layers and tables. Has anyone tried the project 7
tutorial with layers and tables? I want it to work reasonably well across
browsers. If I had my own way I would just start from scratch with layers, but
it is another student's work that I am modifying and I have to leave it as a
table. I think that I might have to not have a scrollbar and leave it as it is
even though it is ugly.