Locking shapes, text boxes etc., into table.

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sleepy j

When I adjust the size of my browser, my circles,
squares, text boxes move off of my page. How can I lock
them in place? This novice would love to get the "411"
on this problem. Thanks ahead of time!
 
could you give us a url for this page? I'd be interested in looking at your
table and also to see what kind of graphics/ vml you've got going on. I
could give you a much better answer, as can the others, in that case.
 
-----Original Message-----
When I adjust the size of my browser, my circles,
squares, text boxes move off of my page. How can I lock
them in place? This novice would love to get the "411"
on this problem. Thanks ahead of time!
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Welcome to HTML. Because there's no way to know what the
width of any visitor's browser window will be, you can
either:

o Design to a fixed width, such as 700 pixels wide, and
cope with the idea that some visitors will have to
scroll right and left, while others will have a large
blank space off to the right.

Try not setting widths on anything and see if you can
stand the results. Your layout will then vary in width to
fit the browser window. If you do need to set some
widths, specify them as percentagse rather than pixes.

Percentages refer to the width of an element's container.
If you draw a table and set its width to 100%, the table
will fill the browser window (because the browser window
is the table's container). If you then set the width of a
table column to 30%, that column will consume 30% of the
table's width (unless the column contains a picture or
some other fixed width object larger than that).

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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|\----------------------------------------------------/|
|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out ||
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out ||
|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition ||
|| Troubleshooting Microsoft FrontPage 2002 ||
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming ||
|| (All from Microsoft Press) ||
|/----------------------------------------------------\|
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Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
*------------------------------------------------------*
|\----------------------------------------------------/|
|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out ||
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out ||
|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition ||
|| Troubleshooting Microsoft FrontPage 2002 ||
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming ||
|| (All from Microsoft Press) ||
|/----------------------------------------------------\|
*------------------------------------------------------*
 
Of course...it is www.sleepyjsport.net
Notice how the text in the text box moves if someone
adjusts the size of their browser window. There has got
to be a way to keep the text box "locked" in place. Or
is that wishful thinking?
 
sleepy j,
the link threw a page not found error. are you sure it's correct. and it's
not too much to hope for, I'm sure a workable solution is available for your
situation.

cl
 
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