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>I am struggling with positioning web form controls.  It was suggested that
I
>place a table on the page - but it seems that the controls are positioned
>independent from the table.
>
>What practices will work?  What should I avoid?
>
>Thanks,
>-dog
>
>
>
>

"Steven Cheng[MSFT]" <stch***@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi,
>
> As for the webform control placement/layout question you mentioned, I
> think
> use table is a simple and quick approach. Normally, in any html based web
> page, you can structure the layout through nested tables. For example, for
> a page with Header, Content, Footer section, you can use a top level table
> with three rows(1cols) and if you want to further structure the Content
> section, just put a nested table in the middle row.
>
> As you mentioned that the controls are not located as the table cell they
> reside, right? If so, would you provide some simple aspx/html snippet so
> that we can have a look to see whether there is any other setting that
> affect the controls' positioning.
>
> Here are some web articles descrbing on html table and how to use it:
>
> #How to use tables to structurize forms in HTML and about alternatives,
> like fieldset
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/tables.html
>
> #Web Authoring FAQ: HTML Tables
> http://htmlhelp.com/faq/html/tables.html
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Steven Cheng
>
> Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
>
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
>
>
>
>
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>>Subject: webform control placement
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>>I am struggling with positioning web form controls.  It was suggested that
> I
>>place a table on the page - but it seems that the controls are positioned
>>independent from the table.
>>
>>What practices will work?  What should I avoid?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>-dog
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

>Subject: Re: webform control placement
>Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:48:39 -0500
>
>Thanks...
>
>I was trying various methods to position the controls.  I used a two
column
>table, relative positioning, absolute positioning, space bars...
>
>When I cleaned out all the <style> tags in the HTML from my attempts at
>using relative positioning and carefully placed the controls back in the
>two-column table (with the left column right justified and the right
column
>left justified - I had the results I needed.
>
>Moral of the story is to not be afraid of jumping into the HTML...
>
>
>
>
>
>"Steven Cheng[MSFT]" <stch***@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As for the webform control placement/layout question you mentioned, I
>> think
>> use table is a simple and quick approach. Normally, in any html based web
>> page, you can structure the layout through nested tables. For example,
for
>> a page with Header, Content, Footer section, you can use a top level
table
>> with three rows(1cols) and if you want to further structure the Content
>> section, just put a nested table in the middle row.
>>
>> As you mentioned that the controls are not located as the table cell they
>> reside, right? If so, would you provide some simple aspx/html snippet so
>> that we can have a look to see whether there is any other setting that
>> affect the controls' positioning.
>>
>> Here are some web articles descrbing on html table and how to use it:
>>
>> #How to use tables to structurize forms in HTML and about alternatives,
>> like fieldset
>> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/tables.html
>>
>> #Web Authoring FAQ: HTML Tables
>> http://htmlhelp.com/faq/html/tables.html
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Steven Cheng
>>
>> Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
>>
>>
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>>From: "radiolandog" <radiolandog@nospam.nospam>
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>> microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet.webcontrols:2839
>>>X-Tomcat-NG: microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet.webcontrols
>>>
>>>I am struggling with positioning web form controls.  It was suggested
that
>> I
>>>place a table on the page - but it seems that the controls are positioned
>>>independent from the table.
>>>
>>>What practices will work?  What should I avoid?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>-dog
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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