layers - absolute relative

#1

ok, i'm trying to get my layer to move relative to the rest of my page when i
resize the internet window. i've tried looking at different posts about this,
but i'm a total nube and a lot of it's greek to me. here's the link. any
advice is appreciated. thanks! http://www.geocities.com/czith/

#2

nevermind, i think i've got it

#3

This may help you understand positioning a bit -

Here is an explanation of the different positioning placemen*ts I posted
some while ago -

Position:absolute
-----------------------
This does several things -
1. It 'removes' the element from the flow of the code on the* page so that
it
can no longer influence the size or position of any other pa*ge element
(except for those contained within it, of course).
2. It takes its position from the position of its closest PA*RENT positioned
element - this is often the <body> tag, which is positioned *at 0,0 in the
browser viewport.

This means that it doesn't matter where in the code the laye*r's code
appears, its location on the screen will not change. Furthe*rmore, the
space
in which this element would have appeared were it not positi*oned is not
preserved on the screen.

Position:relative
----------------------
A relatively positioned page element is *not* removed from t*he flow of the
code on the page so it will use the spot where it would have* appeared based
on its position in the code as its zero point reference. If* you then
supply
top, right, bottom, or left positions to the style for this *element, those
values will be used as offsets from its zero point.

This means that it DOES matter where in the code the relativ*ely positioned
element appears, as it will be positioned in that location (*factoring in
the
offsets) on the screen. Furthermore, the space where this e*lement would
have appeared is preserved in the display, and can therefore* affect the
placement of succeeding elements.

Position:static
-------------------
As with a relative position, static positions also "go with *the flow". An
element with a static position cannot have values for offset*s (top, right,
left, bottom) or if it has them, they will be ignored.

Position:fixed
------------------
A page element with this style will not scroll as the page c*ontent scrolls.
Support for this in elements other than page backgrounds is *quirky.

======================

Looking at your code, I can see that you don't have it yet. You have
committed a common "new user" error -

<td width="28">
<div id="Layer1" style="position:absolute; width:323px;
height:308px; z-index:1; left: 226px; top: 227px; overflow: auto"><font
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><font size="2">1/29/05<br>
Saw the Street Dogs last night. Some <a
href="pics.htm">pics</a>
are up. </font></b></font>

You have put a "layer" into a table cell. You should never put any
absolutely positioned elements directly into table cells. Please read this
to understand some of these "Laws" about layers -

http://www.thepattysite.com/layer_laws.cfm

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"czith" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

ok, i'm trying to get my layer to move relative to the rest of my page
when i
resize the internet window. i've tried looking at different posts about
this,
but i'm a total nube and a lot of it's greek to me. here's the link. any
advice is appreciated. thanks! http://www.geocities.com/czith/

#4

Hi!

Does Dreamweaver supports any other positioning then absolute?

TIA!

-Kaj

#5

Absolutely. 8)

Whatcha got in mind?

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"kajh" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

Hi!

Does Dreamweaver supports any other positioning then absolute?

TIA!

-Kaj

#6

Originally posted by: Newsgroup User Absolutely. 8) Whatcha got in mind?
Great!

I'm looking for the posiblity to have layers that use relative
positioning. When I draw layers and look the the properties of them in the
properties inpector I can set height and width and position, but I can't change
from absolute to relative positioning. After my last posting I found the
following webpage:
http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=355342&seqNum=4 Here I
see that I can use relative positioning by defining a class to use for the
layer (div-tag). So... then I can do what I want!

Thanks for answering!
-Kaj

#7

The article you link is littered with mistakes....

"Typically the tags used to generate a layer are the <div> or <span> tags."

In fact the <span> tag is best not used as a "layer".

"These tags were chosen because they're rarely used by the HTML 3.2
specification. However, Netscape 4.0 is not compliant with the CSS standards
with regard to layers and cannot read layers within these standard tags."

This is just wrong. NN4x can properly position <div> tags.

It goes downhill from there.

Tell me why you feel you need to use relative positioning?

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"kajh" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

Originally posted by: Newsgroup User Absolutely. 8) Whatcha got in mind?
Great!

I'm looking for the posiblity to have layers that use relative
positioning. When I draw layers and look the the properties of them in
the
properties inpector I can set height and width and position, but I can't
change
from absolute to relative positioning. After my last posting I found the
following webpage:
http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=355342&seqNum=4
Here I
see that I can use relative positioning by defining a class to use for the
layer (div-tag). So... then I can do what I want!

Thanks for
answering!
-Kaj

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