Layers
I was trying some stuff out in Dreamweaver and came upon "layers". They seemed quite useful at the time, yet after I created them I noticed on monitor and screen resolution size they seemed to change and avoid what I thought they would look like on my computer. It may be better to type my own code for this but do you know a way I could come apon this problem so my layers dont change on different resolutions and monitors.
bja888 (not verified) posted this at 16:18 — 20th March 2005.
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A litle info would help.
1) What are you doing with the layers?
2) Desplaying some of the code would help.
3) Links and screen shots help too.
PetittJo posted this at 17:32 — 20th March 2005.
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I'm using the layer over a picture, which is where i will put all of my text for the site.
Heres the code:
Text goes here...
So my question is how do I make it so it doent change with different screen resolutions and stay with the design.
Dragon of Ice posted this at 17:44 — 20th March 2005.
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Put it inside a wrapper div, or maybe absolute position the picture too?
PetittJo posted this at 18:22 — 20th March 2005.
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A wrapper div? Do you mean like put the div for my layer inside another div? I'll try both ideas and see what happens.
PetittJo posted this at 18:28 — 20th March 2005.
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I tried both and niether worked. I figure though that there are better ways to set up a layout since this was a site I attempted to create awhile ago and was just wondering about layers in general.
bja888 (not verified) posted this at 19:45 — 20th March 2005.
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Well I am guessing that your picture is not positioned in css. So its in html. Depending on how you set it up the picture might move according to the window size. Where the text is positined useing absolute positioning. It will always be at the exact same spot. 459 X 165 to be exact. The way you fix it would be to make the picture not move. In other words. Dont center or use percentages.
Also, you might be able to use relative positioning but that gets very tricky.
dk01 posted this at 20:11 — 20th March 2005.
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Could you post your code? That'd make it a bit easier to visualize what you are going through.
-dk
PetittJo posted this at 23:17 — 20th March 2005.
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It doesn't really matter anymore, it was an old site that I came across that I was working on and just wondered how I could get it to work. Anyways I already did post my code.
PetittJo posted this at 01:32 — 28th March 2005.
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Well I decided to come back to layers one more time...
That is the code that Dreamweaver generated for the layer, yet the layer resizes with the screen resolution not stay with the intended design. I was wondering if you could tell me what to do. I can post the site if you want me to.
dk01 posted this at 02:39 — 28th March 2005.
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If you post the site it would be helpful. The layer above should not be moving around at all.
-dk
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