Absolute positioning is just as bad now as it ever was,
except in the hands of a skilled designer. Very few
professional designers use absolute positioning for page
layout, but it does have uses in a very few applications
like flyout menus.
I suggest you have a look through
http://social.expression.microsoft.c...4-8d197194a942
This is for Expression Web (the replacement for
FrontPage) but a lot of the learning resources and
tutorials also apply to FrontPage (though the
implementation may have to be through code/HTML view).
With any copy of FrontPage, unless you want to get
dirty in code markup, I would use tables. They are
just as cranky in any web editor - or you could learn
to use divs, margins, floats and padding to layout the
page which is the "modern" way.
http://w3schools.com is a good place to start.
--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp/wf-menu.aspx
Earl Kiosterud presented the following explanation :
> Ron,
> Thanks, but I don't know where to go from here.
> I've looked, but I don't know how to look into
> ancestors and elements inside other elements.
> It's a small web site, and I just want to get
> it done. I haven't done any web authoring in
> years. My "Front Page 2002 Bible" spoke of
> absolute positioning not working well in
> various browsers, but that was back then. It
> seems to work reliably now, except for the
> relative positioning stuff you mentioned .
> That book said to use tables to lay out a page.
> But tables are cranky in Front Page, and
> splitting and merging cells or putting tables
> inside tables is messy. I have text and images
> to lay out here and there on a handful of
> pages. What's the best way to get this done
> with FP 2002? I might be able to get my FP
> 2003 installed, if that will provide tools I
> can use.
> Thanks.
> Earl
> "Ronx" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> All absolutely positioned elements work the
>> same way:
>> The coordinates are taken from the nearest
>> positioned ancestor.
>>
>> Absolute positioning should be avoided unless
>> you know all the pitfalls and nuances - and
>> if you had this knowledge, you would use a
>> different method of page layout.
>>
>> The elements that move when other elements
>> are moved are inside those other elements,
>> and their coordinates are based on the top
>> left of those containers.
>>
>> --
>> Ron Symonds
>> Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
>> http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp
>>
>>
>> Earl Kiosterud formulated on Tuesday :
>>> Hi folks,
>>
>>> Using FP 2002.
>>
>>> I have various elements positioned
>>> absolutely, and when I move one, others
>>> move, but not vice versa. Can't find what
>>> controls that.
>>
>>> Related question: When I look on the
>>> positioning toolbar at the X and Y
>>> positioning of text items (absolute position
>>> text items), they seem to be relative to the
>>> top and left edge of the page, as I would
>>> expect, in pixels. But absolutely positioned
>>> graphics seem to have some other origin, and
>>> the items have negative Left and Top
>>> numbers. How do those X and Y numbers work
>>> with graphics?
>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>>> Earl
>>
>>
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