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Firworks Pop Up Menus & Dreamweaver Page centering problem.

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Hi,

Hi have created a little page and used the Fireworks pop-up menu facility on my navigation buttons which appeared to work fine (mind you I haven't got any links or anything in yet).... anyway I then exported it all into Dreamweaver.

When there I wanted to centre my web page and after a bit of scratching around I found what seemed to be a neat little solution of editing the 'body' tag (see illustration link below):
Box:
margin-left: -370px; (half the width of my page)
Positioning:
position: absolute;
left: 50%;

... worked a treat however it has knocked the position of my drop down menus out of whack on the 'x' axis; it was both x & y but I reset the top margin on 'body' and it resolved the y axis.

When I try it with Firefox it is ok on both?

Is there any way to link (fix) the positions of the drop downs relative to the parent button regardless of the browser?

Regards.
Patrick.

PS This is the centering solution I came across - http://www.wpdfd.com/editorial/thebox/deadcentre4.html
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Inspiring
February 13, 2008
You're welcome. Good luck!

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"patricktr" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Thank Murray.

patricktrAuthor
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February 13, 2008
Thank Murray.
Inspiring
February 12, 2008
Do I ever!

Check the uberlink and MacFly tutorials at PVII -
http://www.projectseven.com/

and the Navbar tutorial/articles at Thierry's place
http://tjkdesign.com/articles/dropdown/

Or this one (more recent article):
http://tjkdesign.com/articles/Pure_CSS_Dropdown_Menus.asp

Or to get it done fast, go here -

http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/navigation/auto_hide/index.htm


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"patricktr" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> OK Murray, thanks - sorry for opening that old wound.
>
> Do you know of any good proven tutorials or that like that will show me
> how to do this without using Fireworks?
> Regards.
> Patrick.

patricktrAuthor
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February 12, 2008
OK Murray, thanks - sorry for opening that old wound.

Do you know of any good proven tutorials or that like that will show me how to do this without using Fireworks?
Regards.
Patrick.
Inspiring
February 12, 2008
Read this, please -

http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menufw_menujs/

It is written by the person hired by Macromedia to adapt that menu code from
its original Netscape form.

Executive summary? Don't use those menus.

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"patricktr" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> MX 2004

patricktrAuthor
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February 12, 2008
MX 2004
Inspiring
February 12, 2008
Which FW?

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"patricktr" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Hi have created a little page and used the Fireworks pop-up menu facility
> on
> my navigation buttons which appeared to work fine (mind you I haven't got
> any
> links or anything in yet).... anyway I then exported it all into
> Dreamweaver.
>
> When there I wanted to centre my web page and after a bit of scratching
> around
> I found what seemed to be a neat little solution of editing the 'body' tag
> (see
> illustration link below):
> Box:
> margin-left: -370px; (half the width of my page)
> Positioning:
> position: absolute;
> left: 50%;
>
> ... worked a treat however it has knocked the position of my drop down
> menus
> out of whack on the 'x' axis; it was both x & y but I reset the top margin
> on
> 'body' and it resolved the y axis.
>
> When I try it with Firefox it is ok on both?
>
> Is there any way to link (fix) the positions of the drop downs relative to
> the
> parent button regardless of the browser?
>
> Regards.
> Patrick.
>
> PS This is the centering solution I came across -
> http://www.wpdfd.com/editorial/thebox/deadcentre4.html
>
>