How do I reposition Controls inside Panel in designer

9 Feb 2007 12:09 AM

schumigod

Ok, so I'm sure this is simple, but I can't find an answer...

I have placed a panel control on a web form, and placed other controls (text
box, datagrid etc...) within it, but they all snap to the left of the panel.

I am not able to drag them around inside the panel (in design view)to
position them.

My page layout is set to GridLayout.

Any help would be appreciated.

9 Feb 2007 5:58 AM

Steven Cheng[MSFT]

Hello schumigod,

As you mentioned that you use "GridLayout" for your ASP.NET web page, are
you using VS .NET 2003 and developing ASP.NET 1.1 web application? Based on
my experience, start from VS 2005, ASP.NET web page no longer adopt
gridlayout(as it doesn't quite conform to web page design best practices).

If you do use vs 2003 and use gridlayout to design ASP.NET 1.1 web page,
you can simply add the "MS_POSITIONING="GridLayout"" attribute into the
html (or asp.net container control) you want to also apply gridlayout
design. For example:

=====aspx fragment====
.....................
<body MS_POSITIONING="GridLayout">
        <form id="Form1" method="post" runat="server">

            <asp:Panel id="Panel1" runat="server" .................
                Width="544px" Height="456px" MS_POSITIONING="GridLayout">

Panel
<asp:Button id="Button1" style="Z-INDEX: 101; LEFT: 32px; POSITION:
absolute; TOP: 32px" runat="server"
                    Text="Button"></asp:Button></asp:Panel>

            <div id="div1" style="WIDTH: 340px; POSITION: absolute; HEIGHT: 200px"
MS_POSITIONING="GridLayout">
                fsdfdsfsfsff
                <asp:TextBox id="TextBox1" style="Z-INDEX: 101; LEFT: 24px; POSITION:
absolute; TOP: 40px" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
            </div>
        </form>
    </body>

..........
========================

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead

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