Re: Layers...nothing's helping

#1

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:

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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.

#2

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) ???

#3

that website is EXACTLY what I need to do, by the way...

#4

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/dreamweaver/articles/intro_cssp_02.html

MD

kodeblue wrote:

Quote:

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) ???

#5

kodeblue wrote:

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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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#6

just like "http://www.doom3headquarters.com/" ???

#7

kodeblue <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote:

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just like "http://www.doom3headquarters.com/" ???

No, nothing like that site. Are you even looking at the code? This site is
made of tables, not divs. The other site is both.

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#8

whoa, easy tiger, just asking questions man!

#9

kodeblue <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote:

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whoa, easy tiger, just asking questions man!

1) Not a man.

2) No, you were not just asking a question, you were asking a question
without doing any of the research yourself - ie, looking at the actual code.

3) Try "just asking questions" without all the attitude next time and we're
likely to be a little nicer. I promise!

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