New Div Problem

Question

Hey again. This time, I've encountered an issue where I have
placed four divs into a main div container. The four inner divs are
all behaving well and responding to my margin call-outs, and
offetting from each other, or the top, as they should. However, I
added a fifth div container (Main Content 5, highlighted in lime
green) and it will not offset from the bottom of the "Graphic 3"
container, even though I specified a 10px top margin. In DW design
view I can see the 10px top margin overlapping the Graphic 3 div. I
tried several fixes, but as I'm still learning, it is apparent I'm
not hitting upon the correct solution. Here is the file online:
http://www.vairhead.net/csstest/csstest.html
And as long as I'm asking, perhaps someone knows why DW won't
let me click in certain places when I want to add a div tag. Here's
a graphic explaining that issue:
http://www.vairhead.net/csstest/images/screenshot.gif
Thanks once again-
Mark

Answer 1

Depending on the way that particular page element is located
on the page,
there may be no sensible pace to the "right".
You are thinking about your layout with a Design view
mentality. That's
holding you back....
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
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"Mark Buchler" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
>
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
>
> Click on the div image - use right cursor key on
keyboard
> That will move cursor in the code to the right of the
image - but
> inside the existing div.
>
> Is that what you mean ?
> --
>
> ~Malcolm~*...
> ~*
>
>
> Ideally what I wanted to do was this. Let's say I wanted
to add a new div
> container just to the right of the lime green container
(main content 5).
> Because DW's "Insert Div Tag" tool is available for use
in "design" view,
> I
> might assume that all I had to do was to (1) click (to
place) my cursor
> just to
> the right (and outside) of the lime green box, (2) click
the Insert Div
> Tag
> toolbar icon, then (3) set my parameters for my new div
in the popup pane
> that
> follows. But I can't seem to perform this operation.
Whenever I try to
> click
> the cursor to the right of any of my existing divs, the
cursor jumps to
> another
> seemingly random location in the layout. Now the reason
I thought I could
> do
> things this way in the first place is because the
"Insert Div Tag" popoup
> pane
> has a field INSERT->AT INSERTION POINT (a pulldown
option). Following the
> logic
> of this, I assumed that I could choose my specific
insertion point with
> the
> cursor, even if it meant clicking to the right of an
existing div
> container.
> About the only time the cursor will click in and stay
where I want it is
> if I'm
> clicking into a block of text.
>
> Flow of logic: I want a new div container to the right
of the existing
> green
> one. --> Click to the right of the green container to
set the insertion
> point
> of the new container.--> Set parameters in popup
pane, then click OK.-->
> New
> div container appears to the right of the green one.
>
> But I guess this was not the plan of the DW software
programmers, as it
> doesn't seem to work this way!
>
> Thanks again-
>
>
>