Can some layers be fixed on top?

I have only limited knowledge about layers in web design, but I was wondering if it is possible to lock a particular layer (or individual items) on the topmost layer and stay there.

To try to explain what I mean. I have a header panel which includes a CSS menu. Below that are my ‘slave’ pages which are all based on the ‘Master’ page. When I make a new page using the master, and I go on to the browser to test it, I find that the CSS drop-down menus end up BEHIND any content I have placed on the ‘slave’ page. I then have to go back into FW to my master page and bring the CSS menu back up on top.

I know this is probably just a minor irritation and something I should get into the habit of remembering to do every time I make a new page or add an item to that page - but it would be much nicer if there was a way to lock certain parts of a site on top (the ‘lock’ tab doesn’t seem to help here either), to save having to go back and redo this every time - invariably, my memory lets me down every time.


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I find that the CSS drop-down menus end up BEHIND any content I have placed on the ‘slave’ page.

Because the Menu section was created before any new content then subsequent content gets a higher z-index. The higher the z-index the closer to the top the item is.

If your Master only contains the header and menu sections then all new content created on the slave pages will be assigned a higher z-index.

2 ways round this

1 - On the Master make an empty placeholder ‘behind’ the menu and populate it on the slave.

2 - Using Item>Extended give the menu an artificially high z-index (999) so that it is always above other content. However depending on your layout this may not always be desirable/possible especially if you are using an inline construction. A look at your page online would help us determine that.

David


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Thanks Dave, sorry for the late reply, but your advice has worked perfectly for me. I knew how to alter the Z-index in Dreamweaver (although I never understood the concept of z-index) but couldn’t find how to do that in FW and now you’ve also shown me what it’s for lol.

I don’t understand number 1 in your 2 options, but number 2 did the trick anyway - also don’t know what is meant by ‘inline construction’.

Thanks again.


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