seco Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Hi im using dreamweaver to design pages using css and writing css by hand is there any program that i can drag css and it will snap to the adjacent one by default like developing in windows applications and then i can set if its absolute position or not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyB Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 css is not a 'draggable' object-like thing. absolute position is best avoided as it probably causes more problems than it solves. I'd suggest learning more about css and less about dreamweaver. Other opinions may vary - I really don't know how or even if you can do what I think you're asking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameYin Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 What you are saying doesn't make sense. That would not even be possible unless it is some recent software. Also at AndyB, many companies only say hand-coding is needed incase HTML editors such as DreamWeaver can't produce the same results. It's good to know programs such as DreamWeaver though I agree with you that you shouldn't rely too much on editors to do the work for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronzemonkey Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 absolute position is best avoided as it probably causes more problems than it solves. Not really...unless you don't know what you're doing. But then using css will cause more problems that it solves if you don't know how to use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBlue Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Ever since i toke the first steps towards, learning html/css, (about 5 years ago), i haven't even looked back. Don't use such programs, save yourself the trouble. Besides, hand-writing the code can actually be faster then using such editors, unless you use the templates. Absolute positioning doesn't curse problems, its one of the most efficient tools web-designers got. However many beginners not knowing about the position relative/absolute trick, disregard it as being useless, since it at first look doesn't work inside a basement div. This is however wrong, give the basement a position: relative; declaration, and it works as most of us would want it to. Ever since the release of IE7 i cant promote the use of position enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyB Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 For clarity's sake, perhaps I should have said "people who don't know what they're really doing should avoid absolute position as a first recourse to every layout problem" ... unless they are lucky enough to have absolute control over the user's browser choice and monitor size Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFilmGod Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 absolute positioning should ONLY be used rarely - when nested within a position: relative div. Using absolute postioning for anything else defeats the purpose of css. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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