Re: Layers & Templates

> Hi - is it possible to use a layer/AP Div together with the show/hide 
> behavior
> on a DW page which is based on a DW template?

Certainly.

Since all the answers are in the code, and since we cannot fully understand 
what you are describing without looking at that code, can you show us what 
you have done so far, please?

-- 
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
==================
http://www.projectseven.com/go - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.dwfaq.com - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
==================


"Mick3496" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message 
news:ftkstc$jhd$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Hi - is it possible to use a layer/AP Div together with the show/hide 
> behavior
> on a DW page which is based on a DW template?
> If you try to draw a layer or AP Div it's invisible in design view but the

> div
> is placed on the code and the necessary CSS styling is there but the 
> template
> markup prevents DW recognising the DIV as a layer or AP div and therefore 
> the
> show/hide behavior doesn't work.
> I would like to use this technique on pages based on a DW template - is 
> there
> a way?
>
> Thanks,
> Mick
> 

Hi - is it possible to use a layer/AP Div together with the show/hide behavior 
on a DW page which is based on a DW template?
 If you try to draw a layer or AP Div it's invisible in design view but the div

is placed on the code and the necessary CSS styling is there but the template 
markup prevents DW recognising the DIV as a layer or AP div and therefore the 
show/hide behavior doesn't work.
 I would like to use this technique on pages based on a DW template - is there 
a way?

 Thanks,
 Mick

Here is a link to the page....
 http://www.trek.emenet.co.uk/template_based.html

 I think I've solved most of the issues but maybe I'm missing something.

 I'm using DW8, I found that if I 'draw' the 'layer' by clicking the icon on 
the insert toolbar the layer div is invisible in design view, the div tag is 
placed after the closing html tag and the show/hide behaviour doesn't work.

 However if I position the cursor within the editable region and the containing

div and insert the layer using the insert menu (Insert>Layout
Objects>Layer) 
then the layer div is placed at the cursor position and is visible in design 
view. This is better because the absolute positioning is then relative to the 
containing div rather than the enitire page (am I right?).
 Using this method I am then able to get the show/hide behavior working as the 
example shows.
 The only issue I'm left with is that the layer doesn't appear in the layers 
panel and in order to select it to work with I have to go to code view and 
select the div from there. Can I get the layer to appear in the layers panel?

 Does CS3 behave in the same way?

 Thanks,
 Mick

Hmmm.
 If you 'draw' the layer on a page based on a template the layer div is placed 
after the closing html tag - no good.

 However if you insert the layer using Insert>Layout Objects>Layer it
inserts 
the layer at the cursor position which as I say is better because the position 
is then relative to the containing div.
 The problem I'm having is that the 'layer' doesn't appear on the layers panel 
in design view when placed on a template based page.
 I've insert the layer on a template based page and a page detached from the 
template and apart from the template mark-up the code is identical - just seems

that DW8 doesn't recognise it as a 'layer'.
 This means that if the layer is 'hidden' selecting it involves switching to 
code view and back again