Re: Stabilizing DreamWeaver Layers

by jdowdell(at)macromedia.com (John Dowdell)

 Date:  Tue, 12 Jan 1999 16:17:10 -0700
 To:  "'HTML Writers Guild'" <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
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At 2:33 PM 10/7/97, dancingelk(at)wolfenet.com wrote:
> I have seen a code somewhere... to Stabilize the Layers in
> Dreamweaver.  so they don't slip and slide all over the place if
> resized etc.

I'd guess you're talking about how Netscape browsers reposition DIVs when
you resize the window. This is endemic to that browser brand, and not to
any particular tool which writes the HTML.

There *is* a technique to capture the window.resize event and reload the
document... just basic JavaScript. I've used this successfully, but some at
Netscape have warned that you risk an infinite loop in such a situation.
More info's available through the Netscape site... they would have the best
word on their current recommended strategy. In the meantime, don't resize
Netscape windows for DHTML.

jd



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