BGDM 2004 Gap at the top of the screen

Jacky Kenna · June 7th, 2005, 10:36 AM

Not strictly in Bgn Dm 2004 but I am developing a site in Parallel to the book and I have now created a page and for some reason it is not starting at the top of the page. There must be a setting I have altered but For love nor money can I find what I have done.

Imar · June 7th, 2005, 12:04 PM

Sounds like a margin issue on the <body> tag to me.

Add the following to your external style sheet or to a <style> tag in the head section of your page:

body
{
margin: 0;
}

That resets the default margin of the body tag....

Imar
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Jacky Kenna · June 7th, 2005, 12:28 PM

Thanks I was just opening up my e-mail to say I had located the issue when I saw your reply.

Clicking the page properties button which is nearly always on the property inspector ( I say nearly as it is always there for me) brings up the overall site page properties. Looking at appearance I noticed that the margin were blank As with the cell sizes I deduced that the page should also be set to 0 margins and not left blank. Set to 0 all OK.

Again thanks for your help

Imar · June 7th, 2005, 02:59 PM

Just make sure that Dreamweaver generates Css for this (using margin etc) and doesn't add html attributes on the <body> tag as older versions used to do.

Also, the way DW does it is a bit verbose. It adds an attribute for each of the four directions, while you could get away with simply adding margin: 0 instead of margin-left: 0, margin-top: 0 etc etc

Imar

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Jacky Kenna · June 7th, 2005, 03:13 PM

I am going to have to give this some thought as I have done it the easy way (for me). Having used CSS at your directions does not necessarily mean that the concepts and a deep understanding have penetrated my slow brain.

I have simply entered the zeros which might be a bulky to do it. At least with what I have so far my colleagues will keep at their side and I will continue studying the code stuff.

Jacky

Imar · June 7th, 2005, 05:04 PM

Yeah, sure. As long as it works... Just wanted to mention it, so you are aware of what Dreamweaver puts where when you change something.

Where did the settings end up? If you have a lot of pages in your site, you're probably better off moving this to a separate style sheet so you don't have to repeat this on every page you create....

Imar
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Everyone is unique, except for me.