Problems positioning Layers

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Karen

Hi Chris,

I use FrontPage 2003, so I'm not quite sure whether this will apply to
your situation or not, but it may be worth a try.

Whenever I create Layers, I ensure that the Positioning style is set at
"absolute" versus "none" or "relative", so that no matter where I place
the layer, it blends in seamlessly and goes exactly where I want it to
go, regardless of its relation to any other text boxes, pictures,
tables, etc. Once the layer is highlighted in blue and I can see the
four-tipped arrow icon, I can drag it around all over the page.

I visited your web site (man, you guys sure do love to fish!), and I'm
guessing it's the layer containing the table way down at the bottom of
the page that you'd like to be able to position wherever you want it.

I wish you the best of luck with this problem, and hopefully some FP
experts will be around soon to assist you!

Karen
 
C

Chris

Thanks Karen.

Yes we do love to fish.

I also use FP 2003, and had played around with the bits you suggested,
but to no avail.

If there are any FP Experts watching this.
I've modified the template for April
http://www.chris.a.mitchell.btinternet.co.uk/Fishing/2006/04-2006_TKReport.htm,
and what I want to be able to do is insert my report for that months
trip where it says blah blah blah and have the tide tables
automatically move down the page as the length of the report increases.
One month it may be 10 lines the next 20, then 43 and so on. Regardless
of the length of the report I want the tide table info layers to appear
immediately after the end of the report.

I guess that somehow I have to Group the three layers, one for the
variable tide data, one for the constant data, and one to bind them, so
that they are treated as one object, and set the correct wrapping style
around that one object, but how?

Then all I have to do is to get the horizontal lines to align and the
jobs a good un.

TIA.

Chris.
 
R

rfr

It appears to me that the section where you have "Blah Blah Blah" will
expand, or contract, as you add or delete material and the content that you
wish to be pushed down or moved back up when material is added or deleted,
will move and be either pushed down or moved up as the conditions change.

You have used DIV's that have CSS positioning in them to hold the content
that you wish to be under the varying length section where "Blah Blah Blah"
is right now. This should work. You have built containers within containers
with CSS.

The outer container is the one that you have with an ID="layer1". Since you
did not use the positioning CSS commands LEFT and TOP, then your outer box
ID="layer1" will assume its normal position in the flow of the document,
even tho you used the POSITION ABSOLUTE CSS.

The "layer1" outer DIV will move down as you add material above it. It willl
move up as you take out material above it. If you had placed values in the
LEFT and TOP CSS parameters on "Layer1", then it would NOT flow naturally,
but would position exactly at the LEFT and TOP positions of ITS container
which in your case is the outer document contaned in BODY ( or in some
browsers[egads] HTML)

Your use of the POSITION ABSOLUTE CSS in that outer DIV container tho it
does not position it specifically on the outer document, it does will set
the conditions for your further positioning of its internal pieces which are
other CSS DIV's

You could have, also, used tables within tables to build the content that
you wish to be underneath the "Blah Blah Blah", varying length content.
Designing content using Tables within tables still are easier to construct
and are more cross-browser valid than CSS.

In both cases the "Blah Blah Blah" should expand and push down the following
material, just as it always has in histortic HTML.
 
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