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September 7, 2018
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Is it possible to move and resize page's elements as buttons, fields, containers in the Design View with the cursor and/or keys?

  • September 7, 2018
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Any designer form worthy of this name (I'm thinking of SQL forms, forms 4.5... from Oracle, to the Visual Basic IDE, to ACCESS, etc.) allows you to move elements of this form and change their dimensions with the mouse in combination with keyboard keys. The position and dimensions are automatically recalculated in the code. It seems that there aren't similar facilities with DW CC and that it is necessary to calculate tediously positions and dimensions in the html, CSS code, trivial task that slows the development.

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Nancy OShea
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September 7, 2018

You're comparing apples and oranges.  Database creation software is not web authoring software and vice versa. 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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September 7, 2018

Moving, resizing form/page elements occurs in the presentation layer, so that it does not matter whether this interface is designed for the web, for databases or booth.

pziecina
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September 7, 2018

nicoled94356575  wrote

Moving, resizing form/page elements occurs in the presentation layer, so that it does not matter whether this interface is designed for the web, for databases or booth.

And what do you think that would translate to, in rwd, when the end user can be using anything from a smartphone to a large screen tv?

pziecina
Legend
September 7, 2018

You asked a similar question a month ago -

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2523291

Nothing has changed in the interviening time.

Known Participant
September 7, 2018

I remember. But it's such a pity that I am naively expecting not to be so limited.

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 7, 2018

Different tools for different jobs.

If you want easy drag & drop form building, look at CoffeCup's Web Form Builder (USD $129, free trial available).  Web Form Builder | CoffeeCup Software

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert