maintaining relative page size/length

Tracey · October 24th, 2009, 09:53 AM

How can I stop the area below the text box from dropping down after clicking the btnSubmit?
If you look at the position of the footer ("Having difficulties? Contact the Webmaster"), it drops down when the "Welcome, [UserName]" is displayed.
From chapter 7 page 264-266
Please advise.
Thanks, Tracey
Beginning Dreamweaver MX 2004
ISBN 0-7645-5524-3 (not 4) 762 pages (not 792 pages)
copyright 2004... 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3

Code:

<% if Session("UserName") = "" then %>
 <form action="home.asp" method="post" name="frmUserName" id="frmUserName">
  <input name="txtUserName" type="text" id="txtUserName" />
  <input name="btnSubmit" type="submit" id="btnSubmit" value="Tell Us Your Name" />
 </form>
<% else %>
 Welcome, <% Response.Write(Session("UserName")) %>.
<% end if %>

Imar · October 24th, 2009, 11:00 AM

What do you mean with "drops down"? If I am not mistaken, it's simply pressed down a bit because of the welcome text. Or do you mean something else?

Imar

Tracey · October 26th, 2009, 07:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Imar

... If I am not mistaken, it's simply pressed down a bit because of the welcome text... Imar

Yes, this is what I mean.
I think it would look more professional if the visible text below the input area did not "jump down" after clicking on the submit button.

Thanks, Tracey

Imar · October 26th, 2009, 08:29 AM

This is typically how browsers work: extra content in a page pushes down content that follows.

You can fix the text using absolute positioning, but you will probably run into problems with longer pages as the other text / content may overlap...

Imar