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| kodeblue 2004-08-04, 11:14 pm |
| I've posted before, but all I got was people dodging the answer "well, you
should read on this" and it has nothing to do with it. It seems as if people
are bloating the answers...can I just get a simple answer?!? I know one's out
there ^_^.
Locking Layers in Dreamweaver...it's thats simple..."How do you do it"... I
just want to drag out a layer, and snap it in place...so when I preview it, or
make it go live, it doesn't move around when my browser is resized... I've
tried "PVII's Snap Layer" and did the tutorial, but it's about layers with
buttons...guys, gals, w/e, "How do snap layers!!!" Thats it!
thanks so much.
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| Mad Dog 2004-08-04, 11:14 pm |
| At the risk of sounding evasive, it depends on how you set up your page and
want to use layers. SnapLayers works great, and doesn't have the first thing
to do with buttons. What it does do is snap your layers into place in
relation to an image. Any image. A spacer. It doesn't care. Name your layer.
Click the <body> tag in the Property Inspector. Select the SnapLayer
behavior. Have it fire on OnLoad. Select your layer(s) and the image they
should anchor in relation to. Take a look to see how it lines up. Click the
behavior to open it and adjust the x and y coordinates until the layer is
where you want it. Then repeat the process so it fires on OnResize.
Voila
You can also do this using CSS but that's more complicated.
MD
kodeblue wrote:
> I've posted before, but all I got was people dodging the answer
> "well, you should read on this" and it has nothing to do with it. It
> seems as if people are bloating the answers...can I just get a simple
> answer?!? I know one's out there ^_^.
>
> Locking Layers in Dreamweaver...it's thats simple..."How do you do
> it"... I just want to drag out a layer, and snap it in place...so
> when I preview it, or make it go live, it doesn't move around when my
> browser is resized... I've tried "PVII's Snap Layer" and did the
> tutorial, but it's about layers with buttons...guys, gals, w/e, "How
> do snap layers!!!" Thats it!
>
> thanks so much.
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| kodeblue 2004-08-04, 11:14 pm |
| that website is EXACTLY what I need to do, by the way...
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| kodeblue 2004-08-04, 11:15 pm |
| explain "http://www.rshl.org/"....what are they anchoring the layers too ( the
little windows)....see, this makes no sense, they have 1 html file...are they
anchoring to the tiled background? (the dark blue) ???
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| Mad Dog 2004-08-04, 11:15 pm |
| They're using absolutely positioned divs which are defined in the CSS
stylesheet. Take a look at http://www.rshl.org/css/ci.css and you'll see
where they have the various divs defined, then named in the HTML code. This
isn't my domain of expertise so I can't tell you an easy way to do
this...actually I don't think it's easy at all if you're a beginner with
stylesheets. There are other tutorials around, and I'm sure someone here may
know better ones, but you can start with:
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx...ro_cssp_02.html
MD
kodeblue wrote:
> explain "http://www.rshl.org/"....what are they anchoring the layers
> too ( the little windows)....see, this makes no sense, they have 1
> html file...are they anchoring to the tiled background? (the dark
> blue) ???
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| .: Nadia :TMM :. 2004-08-04, 11:15 pm |
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apart from MDs good advice, there is no 'auto' snap layer in DW.
If you were given tutorials to read previously, there would have been a
reason for it - did you go through them?
If you are not familiar with how a stylesheet interacts with the contents on
your page, then why not use standard table layout to achieve the layout ..
would be quite easy to do it that way.
CSS is what is driving that page. look at the code of the site, check out
the stylesheet and learn from that. I don't believe anyone is skirting the
issue - they have given you good advice, you just need to heed it :)
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"kodeblue" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:cerr4u$qgg$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> I've posted before, but all I got was people dodging the answer "well, you
> should read on this" and it has nothing to do with it. It seems as if
people
> are bloating the answers...can I just get a simple answer?!? I know one's
out
> there ^_^.
>
> Locking Layers in Dreamweaver...it's thats simple..."How do you do it"...
I
> just want to drag out a layer, and snap it in place...so when I preview
it, or
> make it go live, it doesn't move around when my browser is resized... I've
> tried "PVII's Snap Layer" and did the tutorial, but it's about layers with
> buttons...guys, gals, w/e, "How do snap layers!!!" Thats it!
>
> thanks so much.
>
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| Al Sparber- PVII 2004-08-04, 11:15 pm |
| kodeblue wrote:
> that website is EXACTLY what I need to do, by the way..
That page is using relatively positioned divs inside table cells. Inside
of the relatively positioned divs are placed absolutely positioned divs
with overflow set to "auto" to allow them to scroll. That page is not at
all what you think it is and to do it in Dreamweaver, you would really
need to be familiar with markup. It's not a visual "click, click"
operation to do that.
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| kodeblue 2004-08-05, 4:14 am |
| just like "http://www.doom3headquarters.com/" ???
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| kodeblue 2004-08-05, 12:15 pm |
| whoa, easy tiger, just asking questions man!
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| kodeblue 2004-08-08, 4:14 am |
| wtf is your problem!!! I did nothing! settle! I got my answer from a different site, thanks anyway though
sheesh!
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