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cherril37420136
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January 4, 2017
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I can't drag tables

  • January 4, 2017
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For some reason no matter what I try I can't drag tables around and it's really annoying, it's making everything a lot harder than ever and also, I can't set myself to beginner for some reason. I do have 2017 and I'm on a PC is this helps. But really it's frustrating. I don't do the coding, I design more than anything.

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Correct answer Jon Fritz

Unless an item is given absolute positioning in its css, you won't be able to click and drag it.

Legacy versions of DW had a button for something called APDivs that would create a "layer" that you could drag to wherever you liked within the Design View interface. Due to changes in the way the internet is viewed (smartphones, tablets and monster desktop screens) they fell out of favor a long time ago and were removed from the program for causing more problems than they solved.

Now days, positioning is handled by by using css margins, padding and floats. Flexbox (more advanced css) is another "even more complicated, but better in the long run" way of laying out a page.

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Nancy OShea
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Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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January 4, 2017

#1 DW is not a click & drag app.   

#2 Table-based layouts are not used anymore except for emals.   Modern web design requires you to use CSS layouts.

# 3 to use DW effectively, you must understand how to work with code.  At a minimum HTML, CSS & to a lesser extent JavaScript. See links below.

If you can't or won't learn to work with code, switch to Adobe Muse.  It's aimed at non-coders.

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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cherril37420136Author
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January 8, 2017

I appreciate that, I do understand some coding, mostly java and HTML but Muse was something I didn't know about and might be easier for my uses, thank you!

Jon Fritz
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Jon FritzCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
January 4, 2017

Unless an item is given absolute positioning in its css, you won't be able to click and drag it.

Legacy versions of DW had a button for something called APDivs that would create a "layer" that you could drag to wherever you liked within the Design View interface. Due to changes in the way the internet is viewed (smartphones, tablets and monster desktop screens) they fell out of favor a long time ago and were removed from the program for causing more problems than they solved.

Now days, positioning is handled by by using css margins, padding and floats. Flexbox (more advanced css) is another "even more complicated, but better in the long run" way of laying out a page.

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cherril37420136Author
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January 8, 2017

Oh, I see! Thank you very much, that helps a lot!

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cherril37420136Author
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January 4, 2017

It's the same thing with images, it's really annoying and makes making websites so much harder for me

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