I started to ask this in another thread, but it probably needs it’s own.
When making a box model, and you need to add boxes below what you’re done at a later time, how is that done? I can never seem to get it right.
Say you have a main container. In that you have another box with text and a pic next to it (or should the pic be in a separate box?). Then, at a later date, you need to add that same setup (text box with pic next to it) under the ones you already have. This will go on continuously as you add content over time.
What I would do is use a nested set of boxes. For your first photo +
text combo, draw an HTML box on the pasteboard somewhere. Double-click
inside it and Insert / Graphic item to get your photo in there. Fill
it with the photo and resize and crop to your liking. Then double-
click next to the photo so you again have a text cursor inside your
outermost HTML box, and Insert / HTML item to insert a text box after
your image. Set the alignment, insert your text, get everything
working correctly in this unit. Finally, click on the outer HTML box
to select it (handles showing) and cut to the clipboard. Double-click
inside your main page container HTML box, and press the down arrow
enough times until you are certain your text cursor is at the very end
of the inline content. Finally, paste, and your inline construction
(photo plus text) should appear at the bottom of your page and should
“hang together” when the page is resized. When it comes time to add
the next element to your page, all you need to do is copy the last
assembled text/photo and then down-arrow a bunch of times and paste.
Change the photo and text in the duplicate, and away you go.
Walter
On Dec 21, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Robert B wrote:
Then, at a later date, you need to add that same setup (text box
with pic next to it) under the ones you already have. This will go
on continuously as you add content over time.
The most important thing on BM is to plan your layout premature.
The second thing is to activate the element-view in FW.
(I know you know - just for protocol).
Adding things later on is one of the pain you’ll struggle starting BM.
I traditionally set “each element” in its own box so in your layout:
Container 100%
Parent div Page Widht, center via margin (overflow visible), clear to both (important).
in the parent, two divs, one float left (text) one float right (image).
Now choose your parent div and hit cmd-D. It should be duplicated situation of your first parent-div including its content.
Don’t forget to check the clear to both on this copy.
I honestly never used duplicate, but just tried it on a test page with a set up similar to the one I described and it just duplicated it down right underneath the other! Guess I should have tried that a while ago.
Both methods mentioned here are going into yet another Freeway TextEdit file. I have dozens from posts on this forum!