Moving controls aroundi n design mode

G

Guest

Hi,

I come from Winforms where you simply drag a control to where you want it.
Not so in ASP it seems. (Visual studio 2003).

When I drag a control onto the form, it sticks all over the place except for
where I want it to. When I try to drag it, it gets stuck here & there. I
understand there is HTML creating formatting rules underneath like DIV &
etc, but is there any way I can treat controls just like in good old
Winforms? Does VS 2005 improve on this?
I notice 'sometimes' an arrow appears on the top right which lets me drag
the control around. Other times you can drag it if the whole box has drag
handles around it & it seens buttons act differently to labels

It's driving me n-n-n-n- crazy!

Any suggestions? Nice ones please...

Thank you for your thoughts

Ant
 
M

MattC

Try setting this:

<body MS_POSITIONING="GridLayout">

The you should be able to drag and drop controls where you like and they
will be absolutely positioned. Carefull though, controls will not move out
of the way of datagrids you place and with get draawn over if the grid
covers it.

MattC
 

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