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    A5W component Placement

    Hi Guys,
    I have built a few components that i have placed on an a5w page.
    I need this components to be "side by side" and not stacked. I have tried a few different things including using a HTML page instead and have tried using some DIV tags altho im not exactly sure how well i was using them. After a few days of messing with it im out of ideas " some might call it skill"

    any help would be great.

    Thanks
    Roland
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    Re: A5W component Placement

    Can you post what the screen currently looks like (so we know what you don't want) and maybe a mock up or sketch somehow of what you do what it to look like?

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      #3
      Re: A5W component Placement

      what im trying to achive is a nicer 2x2 arrangment. eg 2 components on the same line so to speak.
      Attached Files

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        #4
        Re: A5W component Placement

        Sorry my mistake on the attached screen shot. Whoops.
        This one might be a little better.
        2012-08-15 16:09:59 +00001.png

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          #5
          Re: A5W component Placement

          You need to learn CSS, or use a table with two columns. There is a CSS for Alpha coming up on the IADN website.
          Steve Wood
          See my profile on IADN

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            #6
            Re: A5W component Placement

            Roland,

            Have you considered placing the components on a dialog2 component and then placing the dialog2 onto the A5W page? I think this would give you complete flexibility in where you place vertical and horizontal breaks between the individual components on the dialog2.

            Terry

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              #7
              Re: A5W component Placement

              On the source page (of an *.a5w page) use the code:
              Code:
              <table>
<tr>
<td>--component1--</td><td>--component2--</td>
</tr>
</table>
              Then on the WYSIWYG page put your components for "conponent1" and same for "component2."

              Dan
              Dan

              Dan Blank builds Databases
              Skype: danblank

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                #8
                Re: A5W component Placement

                CSS is definitely would seem like overkill for small tasks like placing components side by side. CSS becomes more useful when you apply it to the entire website, controlling the whole site from a single "stylesheet". Almost all of Alpha Five's formatting and layout is using CSS + tables, but you wouldn't know it unless you look at the browser source, because Alpha manages it all for you.

                CSS is one of those areas that you need to really study it, go through tutorials or take a class before it starts to make sense and become useful. Using tables as Dan suggested is MUCH easier and even more reliable when starting out.

                Here is CSS for two "content areas". As shown below, they will stack on top of each other:

                <div id="content1">
                <p>CONTENT AREA 1 - Component 1</p>
                </div><!-- END CONTENT1 -->

                <div id="content2">
                <p>CONTENT AREA 2 - Component 2</p>
                </div><!-- END CONTENT2 -->
                But if I add a "style sheet" as below the content areas will run side-by-side (making some assumptions about max width of the components and available width of the page):

                <head>
                ....
                <style>
                content1:{width:400px;float:left;padding:5px}
                content2:{width:400px;float:left;padding:5px}
                </style>
                ....
                </head>
                <div id="content1">
                <p>CONTENT AREA 1 - Component 1</p>
                </div><!-- END CONTENT1 -->

                <div id="content2">
                <p>CONTENT AREA 2 - Component 2</p>
                </div><!-- END CONTENT2 -->
                Steve Wood
                See my profile on IADN

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                  #9
                  Re: A5W component Placement

                  Hi Guys, Steve,

                  As you know Steve all my pages are build inside dialog2 components using grids content inside container components assigned to classes being manipulated via CSS. I am trying to put a login component inside of one of my pages, but login components seems like can only be placed inside a A5W pages (tried to do a logging in a dialog, but it does not redirect nor does the A5WS_LOGIN_USER report correctly), so it occurs to me that I could put the dialog and the login components on the same page and manipulate the positioning of the login component inside the dialog with either a freeform component or a place holder.

                  Have you done this before or would anyone have another solution? Attached what my dialog components look like.
                  Capture1.JPGCapture.JPG
                  Last edited by jmsilva; 09-07-2012, 09:17 PM.
                  Juan Silva
                  My Small Bizz, LLC
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