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alignment of pages within frames

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rexoids

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Owdy,
I have my top nav (straight forward table with some swap image rollovers) in the top frame, and my left nav (imported from fireworks, with some java pop-up menus) in the bottom frame... For some reason my left nav always hugs the left hand side when I preview, no matter what value I put in the H space...? My top nav will always have a gap between itself and the left hand side, even with a value of 0 in the H space...? Li'l help?

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i'm not sure i completely understand your problem, but...

the hspace attribute is normally only associated with the <img> tag. in order to get rid of the gap to the left of your topnav you should put the following in your <body> tag...

leftmargin=&quot;0&quot; topmargin=&quot;0&quot; marginwidth=&quot;0&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot;

...and how do you want to align your leftnav? presumably fireworks gives you it in the form of a table, so you should simply put align=&quot;[wherever]&quot; in the <table> tag.

let me know if this doesn't make sense,

ss
 
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Thanks for your response... however I don't think you completely understood my problem (this happens a lot)

I understood that the hspace attribute (in the properties palette) is to be used to position a table within a page/frame. I also thought it's best to put images in tables, and so can't imagine how you'd use hspace for them..?
Anyway, to simplify, I have two tables - one in the top frame and one in the bottom frame. They both have the same attributes - align=left, hspace=0 etc Yet when I preview in both, NS6 & IE5, they wont line up.
In both browsers the top nav always has a gap, in NS a value of, say 10, is not equal, and in IE, I can't get any gap for the bottom nav...???
I've had this problem before, though with a bit of fiddling I would always get them to line up eventually. I've had dreams of destroying html forever, and we'd all live in a peaceful world of simple, beautiful Flash!
Of course because it's all so temperamental, it's probably not possible for you to help... but would greatly appreciate any suggestions :)
Rexoids (formerly known as Niccurros - actionscripts.org)

 
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hspace (or vspace) is not really used for positioning an element on the page, hspace is used to apply padding around an object eg. if you use hspace=&quot;10&quot; you will get an area of padding, 10 pixels wide, to the left and right of your element - whether it is an image or a table or whatever.

it seems to me that you don't need to put hspace into your tables at all (especially seeing as you've got it set to 0 anyway!).

i can't think what the problem is. where is the gap appearing? is it between the frames? is it on the left?

can you be more specific, please?

ss
 
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is there a way to set up more than one server for FTP in dreamweaver. I have 2 webservers running on 2 separate T1 lines, they both need to be updated together, when I &quot;put&quot; a file.

any ideas?

thanks,
 
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I tried the margins again and it's worked, so there's now no gap down the left hand side of my top nav. As I can't get any gap down the left of my bottom frames nav (only in IE5 though), they line up (many thanks), but it's strange as no matter what value I give to the margins, it wont budge?
Not to worry, as it looks fine with no gap...
Thanks again
Rexoids
 
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