Relative to the white text box that they are sitting in. Even though in FW all the boxes and buttons are aligned exactly the same, when I preview them several of the buttons move up.
I created a graphic box
Item - Action - Button
I created another graphic inside the button and typed the text. I needed it to be another graphic box (inside the button) because I am linking it to a pdf file. When I used a HTML box (inside the button) and linked to it, I had to move the mouse to the outer-most side of the button to get it to link.
Then I duplicated the button, 1 to the right
Moved the two buttons into place and duplicated it 24 times exactly 116px apart so that they would sit in the same spot within the white text box.
Item - bring to front.
I hope this give us some clues.
Thanks D
I created a graphic box
Item - Action - Button
I created another graphic inside the button and typed the text. I needed it to be another graphic box (inside the button) because I am linking it to a pdf file. When I used a HTML box (inside the button) and linked to it, I had to move the mouse to the outer-most side of the button to get it to link.
Can you post a screenshot of this somewhere, or link to the work-in-progress page? I’m lost already, and I’ve been using this app since 1997. First, a button can be a link all by itself. You don’t need to add anything else to it. The whole button is the link, otherwise I don’t see the point of using the Button Action to make it. If you want to center the text on the button, you can do so with the Inspector and the Style / Shift menu command – again, no need for a secondary box.
Then I duplicated the button, 1 to the right
Moved the two buttons into place and duplicated it 24 times exactly 116px apart so that they would sit in the same spot within the white text box.
Item - bring to front.
I hope this give us some clues.
Sorry, were these 25 buttons inline within the HTML box, or were they positioned children of the box, or were they just drawn on the page?
Thank you for that tid-bit of information. I was wondering what the point of an action button was if you still had to create a box for text. I have redone the buttons without the inner box of text. They look great. Here is the page I’m working on.
The buttons were just created on the page and then dragged into position. Should I be doing something different? I am unfamiliar with “inline within the HTML box” or “children of the box”
If they were just created on the page, then they should stick wherever you place them. Inline refers to placing the buttons in a run of text, as if each one of them was a separate text character. This is considered a more “bulletproof” construction, because the layout can flex with changes in the browser, rather than sticking rigidly to a specific X/Y coordinate as if the Web was made of paper and ink. For image-based objects like your buttons, though, there’s no functional difference between these two approaches.
Are you still seeing the random placement on the page you referred to initially?
Walter
On Oct 23, 2012, at 11:47 AM, mslinnea wrote:
Thank you for that tid-bit of information. I was wondering what the point of an action button was if you still had to create a box for text. I have redone the buttons without the inner box of text. They look great. Here is the page I’m working on.
The buttons were just created on the page and then dragged into position. Should I be doing something different? I am unfamiliar with “inline within the HTML box” or “children of the box”
There is very little in the manual on inflow/inline (assuming they are the same) any and all direction would be great.
You might try using the RPL action on that page. It does a pretty good job of creating an inline layout for you. All items need to be layered first though.
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