Can't drag graphic items sometimes; help!

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There’s probably a really simple answer to what I’m doing wrong. So please, help before I hit myself upside the head with a brick.

Sometimes, I can’t drag graphic items around the screen at all; it’s as if they’re “locked” within the parameters of a very small area. A box will drag for 10 pixels or so, then stop.

Got an easy fix to end my pain? Thanks.

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Sometime around 19/1/09 (at 10:27 -0500) Pete Pallett said:

Sometimes, I can’t drag graphic items around the screen at all; it’s
as if they’re “locked” within the parameters of a very small area. A
box will drag for 10 pixels or so, then stop.

Sounds like you’ve drawn those graphics ‘within’ another box. When
you grab one do you see a rectangular selection ‘halo’ surrounding
the area that you’re restricted to?

Next time you drag, keep hold of your graphic and tap the Space bar
on your keyboard once. This should step your item out of the
container and up to the page level like everything else.

When you draw out a new object, whatever kind it is, watch out for
that blue selection area appearing. If it shows something other than
the page itself then you’re about to ‘embed’ the new item inside
something else. Don’t fret! Just use that Space bar trick to get the
selection highlight back out to the page level, or draw the item out
past the other object’s boundaries, then let go.

k

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Sounds as if you may have drawn your graphic box within the bounds of
an HTML box (DIV). If you do this it becomes a child of the DIV and
can’t be dragged beyond it’s boundaries. To avoid this draw your
graphic box outside of an DIV (or so that it extends outside) and then
you can drag around at will.

You can correct any you have already drawn in the Site Panel. Select
the graphic and drag it above or below the containing item and to the
left slightly. You can tell if the graphic lies within another
container as it will be inset underneath the container’s title and not
in ranged in line with it.

HTH Colin.

On 19 Jan 2009, at 15:27, Pete Pallett wrote:

There’s probably a really simple answer to what I’m doing wrong. So
please, help before I hit myself upside the head with a brick.

Sometimes, I can’t drag graphic items around the screen at all; it’s
as if they’re “locked” within the parameters of a very small area. A
box will drag for 10 pixels or so, then stop.

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Thanks from me , too Keith. I didn’t know (or had forgotten, like as
not) that one about the Space bar. I seem to learn a new trick every
day on this forum! :slight_smile:

Colin

On 19 Jan 2009, at 15:43, Keith Martin wrote:

… tap the Space bar on your keyboard once. This should step your
item out of the container and up to the page level like everything
else.

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