Set Text of Layer Question

[iiinsomniiiac]

A Very Easy Question.

I attempt to "set text to layer." I click on the plus sign on the behaviors
window, and set text to layer. A cute little box pops up. In the Layer drop
down box is a host of "unnamed <span>"s. None of my divs are listed. In the
body of this page are Plenty of ID'd divs. I have named layers out the wazoo.

Why Are My Named Layers Not Listed In the Layer Drop Down Box?

[Murray *ACE*]

> I have named layers out the wazoo.

A layer is an absolutely positioned element. You may have plenty of ID's on
those divs, but if none of them are absolutely positioned, you have no
layers.

Also, why do you have so many <span> tags?

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"iiinsomniiiac" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>A Very Easy Question.
>
> I attempt to "set text to layer." I click on the plus sign on the
> behaviors
> window, and set text to layer. A cute little box pops up. In the Layer
> drop
> down box is a host of "unnamed <span>"s. None of my divs are listed. In
> the
> body of this page are Plenty of ID'd divs. I have named layers out the
> wazoo.
>
> Why Are My Named Layers Not Listed In the Layer Drop Down Box?
>

[iiinsomniiiac]

Thanks for your response, ACE.

I'm using an accordion widget as seen @ [url]http://moofx.mad4milk.net/[/url], which
doesn't work well with absolute-positioned divs. As a self-professed newie, is
there a workaround in this situation? Here's what I actually am looking for:

An onclick event that simply loads an html file into a particular NON-ABSOLUTE
div - or - better yet - a table cell.

Does Dreamweaver 8 have support for this - or am I going to have to hand-code
it in using asp or ajax?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[Murray *ACE*]

> An onclick event that simply loads an html file into a particular

> NON-ABSOLUTE
> div - or - better yet - a table cell.

You won't find it.

> Does Dreamweaver 8 have support for this - or am I going to have to
> hand-code
> it in using asp or ajax?

ASP is server side script. To use it you would have to round-trip the page
to the server. Is that what you want?

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"iiinsomniiiac" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for your response, ACE.
>
> I'm using an accordion widget as seen @ [url]http://moofx.mad4milk.net/[/url], which
> doesn't work well with absolute-positioned divs. As a self-professed
> newie, is
> there a workaround in this situation? Here's what I actually am looking
> for:
>
> An onclick event that simply loads an html file into a particular
> NON-ABSOLUTE
> div - or - better yet - a table cell.
>
> Does Dreamweaver 8 have support for this - or am I going to have to
> hand-code
> it in using asp or ajax?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>

[iiinsomniiiac]

Well, my apologies for not knowing exactly what you mean by "round-trip"ing -
but - I suppose I'm simply looking for the easiest way to do just what I
explained: an onclick event that loads an html file into a div or td. I've
seen it done many times over in rss readers, although when I look at the page
source I secretly hope that it's not as complicated as it appears.

With the accordion widget I'm using as the main visual feature of the site I'm
creating, I find it unnacceptable to think I'll have to reload the entire page
every time a user wants click on something to view information; I thought
programming like that was a thing of the past.

[Murray *ACE*]

> seen it done many times over in rss readers, although when I look at the

> page
> source I secretly hope that it's not as complicated as it appears.

It would depend entirely on your level of HTML expertise.

One way to solve the problem would be to use an IFrame to contain the
external content on the page, but a frame is a frame is a frame. By that I
mean that IFrames usually provide all the user problems that frames do.

> With the accordion widget I'm using as the main visual feature of the site
> I'm
> creating, I find it unnacceptable to think I'll have to reload the entire
> page
> every time a user wants click on something to view information; I thought
> programming like that was a thing of the past.

Linking from one page to another is how static HTML pages work. Having a
single page to display multiple content elements as loaded from a database
requires that the page return to the server to fetch new content from the
database on each click. Either method requires a page refresh.

Linking to content that is placed within an IFrame doesn't require this page
refresh, but carries other disadvantages as mentioned above.

Does that help at all?

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"iiinsomniiiac" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Well, my apologies for not knowing exactly what you mean by
> "round-trip"ing -
> but - I suppose I'm simply looking for the easiest way to do just what I
> explained: an onclick event that loads an html file into a div or td.
> I've
> seen it done many times over in rss readers, although when I look at the
> page
> source I secretly hope that it's not as complicated as it appears.
>
> With the accordion widget I'm using as the main visual feature of the site
> I'm
> creating, I find it unnacceptable to think I'll have to reload the entire
> page
> every time a user wants click on something to view information; I thought
> programming like that was a thing of the past.
>