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WingMan

Hello, long time no post...

I was wondering if someone could shed some light on using Dreamweaver's templates.

I have a simple copyright text with a link to my website at the bottom of each page in a website. The copyright and link are in it's own layer and I want to position that layer relative to the end of the text on the page (some pages having more text than others).

The text itself is also in it's own layer that is an editable region in the template I created in DW.

I know this should be quite simple, but my web skills are too rusty to find the solution without a lot of trial and error.

MH
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caddickj · Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:52 am Post subject:

It's late, and I'm not sure I'm fully understanding the issue, but it sounds like you just want the footer to stay at the bottom of all other text, not float somewhere, right? Couldn't you just make that footer layer "relative" rather than "absolute" positioning?

Actually that might not work if your body layer is absolute. If the body layer has to be absolute, can you wrap that layer in a relative layer? Kind of like:

caddickj · Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:56 am Post subject:

Maybe I should also mention that in DW, I think layers go in as absolute all the time and it's not too intuitive to move them to Relative. I usually go in to code view and mess with that stuff there.

At least that's how I do it in DW 2004.... I just bought the newest version but haven't installed it yet, so I can't say if thats improved at all in the newer version.
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WingMan · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:00 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I know relative positioning is the key, but I just couldn't make it work in DW and I'm not a savvy enough coder to do it by hand. I'm using DW templates and somehow I ended up creating a div inside another div inside the editable region and made a mess out of things.

The site is live at http://www.waltersortho.com if you want to take a look. I don't think the client would mind.

Thanks for the help
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