Design view not showing relative positioning

[Dennis Hevener]

Hi--

I am trying to use relative positioning in the style of elements. To see
the result of my positioning, I have to switch to Preview. Design just
shows the default element position, no matter where left and top are set. I
cannot drag the element either.All I can do is modifyi the HTML, then go to
Preview to see if I guessed right. This makes positioning several elements
precisely very tedious and time consuming.

Absolute positioning works as expected--you can drag elements, and their
position is shown in the Design view.

Is there some setting I need to change?

Thanks,

Dennis
http://hosenose.com

 

[Murray]

I am trying to use relative positioning in the style of elements.

Why? What is this going to get you?

 

[Dennis Hevener]

I have a web page that is currently uses absolute positioning. My client
wants to email this info an HTML email, appearing below a
programmatically-generated variable-length "personalized" letter.

So, I put the contents of the web page in a one-cell table, and use relative
positioning for the elements in the cell. The whole table moves up or down
as the text above it changes, buy the elements remain positioned correctly
relative to each other. Cool, huh?

Does your copy of FrontPage behave as I described?

Thanks,

Dennis

 

[Murray]

So, I put the contents of the web page in a one-cell table, and use

relative positioning for the elements in the cell. The whole table moves
up or down as the text above it changes, buy the elements remain
positioned correctly relative to each other. Cool, huh?

This is how relative positioning works. By the way, the table would be
unnecessary. The divs would still position properly without it.

Does your copy of FrontPage behave as I described?

Yes. It's clearly a little bamboozled by relatively positioned elements when
looking in Design view, but it is correctly positioned in Preview.

 

[Dennis Hevener]

This is how relative positioning works. By the way, the table would be

unnecessary. The divs would still position properly without it.

Thanks for the tip!

Too bad FrontPage doesn't handle relative positioning better. I can think
of all sorts of uses for it.

Dennis

 

[Murray]

Yeah - it's a bit annoying. I'll bet they fix it.