Web Controls

rwalker · April 24th, 2007, 08:56 AM

I place a web control on a form in design mode and when I run the program the control has moved somewhere else. If I resize a control, it does not show the modification during runtime.

Please help.

Renee C. Walker

dparsons · April 24th, 2007, 09:10 AM

Are you using a Grid Layout or Flow Layout?

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rwalker · April 24th, 2007, 09:32 AM

I could not figure out how to get the grid layout, so I guess I'm using the flow layout.

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mike_remember · April 24th, 2007, 09:32 AM

Well parsons, I think this problem may arise with FlowLayout, moreover, FlowLayout wont allow proper drag and drop of controls from toolbox... According to me, one should design using the HTML view, like the classic case where we started using notepad as editor, what do you say?

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gbianchi · April 24th, 2007, 09:36 AM

in vs2003 you can choose what type of layout you want in the properties of the page.. by default it was flow..

or I remebered wrong??

HTH

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rwalker · April 24th, 2007, 09:42 AM

You are correct, I'm sorry I'm using Visual Studio 2005.

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dparsons · April 24th, 2007, 09:42 AM

No. In VS 2003 by default your pages are setup as Grid Layout and you must alter then explicitly to have flow layout.

I agree with Mike on this, very rarley do I rely on the designer to place my controls for me, I may initially drop the control on the designer but ultimately switch to HTML View to edit my layout.

In so far as the OP is concerned, even if you page is in Flow mode, a style with a Z-Index applied should still maintain the controls position; show me your entire server tag.

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rwalker · April 24th, 2007, 10:39 AM

runat="server">
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Job Number" Width="80px"></asp:Label>
          
        <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" Width="16px"></asp:TextBox>
        <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox2" runat="server" Width="16px"></asp:TextBox>
        <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox3" runat="server" Width="16px"></asp:TextBox>
        <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox4" runat="server" Width="16px"></asp:TextBox>
        <asp:Label ID="Label2" runat="server" Font-Bold="True" Font-Size="Large" Height="16px"
            Text="."></asp:Label>
        <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox5" runat="server" Width="16px"></asp:TextBox>
        <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox6" runat="server" Width="16px"></asp:TextBox>
        <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox7" runat="server" Width="16px"></asp:TextBox>
        <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox8" runat="server" Width="16px"></asp:TextBox>
        <asp:Label ID="Label3" runat="server" Font-Bold="True" Font-Size="Large" Height="16px"
            Text="."></asp:Label>
        <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox9" runat="server" Width="16px"></asp:TextBox>
                    <asp:CheckBox ID="chkProposal" runat="server" Text="Proposal" style="left: 0px; top: 0px" />
                              
                             
               
        <asp:Label ID="Label4" runat="server"
            Font-Bold="True" Font-Size="Large" Text="WJE Job Initiaion Form" Width="208px" style="left: -22px; top: 0px"></asp:Label><br />
                               
                               
                               
                               
                              
                               
                             
                       <asp:CheckBox ID="chkActive"
            runat="server" Text="Active" />
                               
                               
                     
                               
                        <br />
                               
                               
                               
           
           <asp:Label ID="Label5" runat="server" Text="Client:"></asp:Label>
                          <asp:TextBox ID="txtClient" runat="server" Width="112px" style="cursor: default"></asp:TextBox>
                   
        <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="find" />
                             <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlClient" runat="server"
            DataSourceID="ClientName" DataTextField="Name" DataValueField="Name" Style="position: static"
            Visible="False" Width="232px">
        </asp:DropDownList>
               

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gbianchi · April 24th, 2007, 10:44 AM

well.. there is a weird label with style set left to -22px.. that's strange...

also why so many  ????

HTH

Gonzalo

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rwalker · April 24th, 2007, 11:11 AM

I'm using the html table control. I was told to use that to help with alignment issues.

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