Double spacing in FP2003

[Joe Williams]

Hi,

One thing that always bug me about designing in FP - When you hit return to
go to a new line, it always skips an extra line so you can never get text
directly underneath each other. Is there any way to fix that?

Also - How do you change the properties of a picture so that you can place
it anywhere you want, instead of being "locked in" to certain grid
locations?

Thanks

Joe

 

[Rick Budde]

Question #1: Shift+Enter will get you your single spaced
lines

Question #2: Build your web site using Tables (see Front
Page Help for Tables). Place your content (pictures and
text) into the cells of the tables. Remember that the
content of your web pages will move around based on the
visitor's viewable area (ie, the amount of screen real
estate allocated by the user - not you - to view your
pages). The pages will further move around based on the
View | Text size setting on the browser.

 

[Murray]

One thing that always bug me about designing in FP - When you hit return

to go to a new line, it always skips an extra line so you can never get
text directly underneath each other. Is there any way to fix that?

That's how it's supposed to be according to HTML. Each <p> tag (what you
get when you hit enter) has an implicit top and bottom margin. What you are
seeing is the effect of those margins. By using the Shift enter approach,
you get a hard line break in the line rather than a <p> tag. Hard line
breaks have no margin, but they force the line to break at that point no
matter how it has flowed in the browser. This may not be what you want.

The best solution is to use CSS to adjust the paragraph margins, e.g.,

p { margin:0.3em; }

which will put a margin of 0.3 em top, right, bottom and left of the
paragraph tags.

Also - How do you change the properties of a picture so that you can place
it anywhere you want, instead of being "locked in" to certain grid
locations?

You are talking about absolute positioning here, and again, you can use CSS
to do that. Until you get a better grasp of CSS, though, I wouldn't
recommend it. Nevertheless, with absolute positioning you can place any
page element at any location on the page.