Question

Controls overlapping with asp div lay out

Asked by: TheCommunicator

I have written following code in aspx file:

html>
<body>
<form runat= "server">

<div style="height: 237px; z-index: 1; left: 10px; top: 13px; position: absolute; width: 751px;">

<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox5" runat="server"        
        style="z-index: 1; left: 0px; top: 40px; position: absolute; height: 22px; margin-top: 0px; right: 624px;"></asp:TextBox>
       
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox4" runat="server"
        style="z-index: 1; left: 130px; top: 40px; position: absolute; right: 493px"></asp:TextBox>      
       
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox3" runat="server"
        style="z-index: 1; top: 40px; position: absolute; left: 260px; height: 22px"></asp:TextBox>

<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox2" runat="server"        
        style="z-index: 1; left: 390px; top: 39px; position: absolute; width: 128px;"></asp:TextBox>
       
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server"
        style="z-index: 1; left: 520px; top: 39px; position: absolute"></asp:TextBox>
</div>
<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server"
    style="z-index: 1; left: 14px; top: 212px; position: absolute" Text="Button" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

I have 5 text box controls and their width is 128 and the distance between them is 2 pixels so difference between each of them;s left would be 130(128+2). I have made it sure that it is uniform but when I  run the layout then the text box are over lapping in the browser.

I am not sure what can be problem

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2009-10-09 at 13:16:41ID24800486
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Programming for ASP.NET

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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

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Answers

 

by: arhamePosted on 2009-10-09 at 13:24:27ID: 25538532

The problem is you're using absolute positioning....

 

by: arhamePosted on 2009-10-09 at 13:25:34ID: 25538541

Try changing absolute to fixed

 

by: burakiewiczPosted on 2009-10-09 at 13:27:58ID: 25538561

first i only see the width style tag on 1 textbox

 

by: TheCommunicatorPosted on 2009-10-09 at 13:29:09ID: 25538568

Hmmmmmmmm. So it means that  absolute positioning is not a good practice. In a way that it does not look the same in browser, the way it does in asp environment.

 

by: TheCommunicatorPosted on 2009-10-09 at 13:30:14ID: 25538579

Well I have specified width in design mode. I mean I have made sure it is 128 in design mode. Although it  is not visible in source it  is128 in design mode.

 

by: Omego2KPosted on 2009-10-09 at 13:31:28ID: 25538592

Not all of them have a width of 128px, you need to also account for the border that textboxes have by default. Give all textboxes a width of 128px and space them by say 133px. Why are you doing it this way anyway?

 

by: arhamePosted on 2009-10-09 at 13:31:57ID: 25538598

To be honest I've never ever been a fan of absolute positioning.  I ran into all sorts of problems when rendering in browsers, different browsers (even different versions) can render it quite a bit different.  Use the positioning stuff that will allow you to place your controls in the flow of the page.  That way you know where it'll appear, instead of ignoring all other items on the page and possibly being put ontop of other things.

But it's just my opinion, maybe there is some trick that I missed.  But I found it to be a complete pain.

 

by: TheCommunicatorPosted on 2009-10-09 at 13:33:44ID: 25538614

Width is basically 128 Px and difference between Left of each is 30

 

by: Omego2KPosted on 2009-10-09 at 13:34:08ID: 25538622

Doesn't matter if it's 128 in design mode. All the browser cares about is the HTML. Absolute positioning is not good practice, you can always float the textboxes left then you can forget about exact widths.

 

by: burakiewiczPosted on 2009-10-09 at 13:34:46ID: 25538624

i would do this and maybe even lose the div depending on where you want it

<div style="height: 237px; z-index: 1; left: 10px; top: 13px; position: absolute; width: 751px;">
<table style="width: 751px;" cellspacing="2">
 
<tr>
<td><asp:TextBox ID="TextBox5" runat="server" />
        </td>
<td><asp:TextBox ID="TextBox4" runat="server" />     
        </td>
<td><asp:TextBox ID="TextBox3" runat="server"  />
</td>
<td><asp:TextBox ID="TextBox2" runat="server" />
        </td>
<td><asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" /></td>
 
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="5"><asp:Button ID="Button2" runat="server" Text="Test"/></td></tr>
</table>
 
 
 
 
 
</div>

                                              
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by: Omego2KPosted on 2009-10-09 at 13:35:46ID: 25538634

Solving a CSS issue with a table is also not a good idea :\

 

by: burakiewiczPosted on 2009-10-09 at 13:35:47ID: 25538635

i would try to stay away from the absolute positioning if you can

 

by: TheCommunicatorPosted on 2009-10-09 at 13:40:54ID: 25538689

well, I am new to  web development  and the only reason why I did choose absolute positioning is that it does let me drag the controls like desktop environment at design time. But as you have said I think I have to drop absolute positioning in favor of relative positioning.

 

by: arhamePosted on 2009-10-09 at 13:42:41ID: 25538709

Yeah, web development is quite a bit different in that aspect from designing winform pages.  At least you learned early, I thought I was just slow and not getting how to use absolute positioning when I started - wasted quite a bit of time trying to get it to work right in a browser.

Happy coding :)

 

by: TheCommunicatorPosted on 2009-10-09 at 13:47:14ID: 25538739

Oh yes, so I  think if we consider that absolute positioning is not an option then there is no way that we can design  layout with dragging mechanism. It  means we have to write HTML mark up for each control's placement and come back to design mode to see whether it looks good or not each time. Right?

 

by: burakiewiczPosted on 2009-10-09 at 13:48:23ID: 25538747

what would you do Omego2k?

 

by: Omego2KPosted on 2009-10-09 at 13:48:24ID: 25538748

Do not set position to relative float it!

<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox2" runat="server"        
        style="float: left"></asp:TextBox>
       
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server"
        style="float: left"></asp:TextBox>

 

by: arhamePosted on 2009-10-09 at 13:49:34ID: 25538760

Pretty much.  A combination between HTML and CSS (Like somebody mentioned earlier, if you don't want to use tables to help with your layout, there are CSS properties like float, etc).

You can also set the properties of such things as div's, or tables, or drag tables to the design page and manipulate the same HTML there (by going to the properties of such control) if you're using visual studio.

 

by: Omego2KPosted on 2009-10-09 at 13:53:34ID: 25538798

I wouldn't trust the WYSIWYG designer for exact layout implementation. It's never how you want it. At least for larger content. Also using tables to design is not good practice.

 

by: burakiewiczPosted on 2009-10-09 at 13:55:16ID: 25538805

there alway a big discussion over Tables vs CSS

 

by: Omego2KPosted on 2009-10-09 at 13:58:12ID: 25538825

Really? Never seen them, at least not in years. If there are then it's probably like global warming. Where the scientists are in agreement and the the talk show hosts are not.

 

by: arhamePosted on 2009-10-09 at 13:58:24ID: 25538829

Yeah, there is really a big arguement to both sides of Divs/CSS vs Tables.  But I don't think that's the point of this authors post.  Really if he wants 5 text boxes side by side, he doesn't even have to use float: left.... just put them all next to each other with an &nbsp; between them.....  but if he wanted each in it's own div that's when it'd become handy.

Either way.  I think he got his question answered....

 

by: TheCommunicatorPosted on 2009-10-09 at 14:01:18ID: 25538849

Thank  you very much guys

 

by: dhansmaniPosted on 2009-10-09 at 14:01:22ID: 25538850

try this code

<body>
<form id="Form2" runat= "server">
<div style="height: 237px; z-index: 97; left: 10px; top: 13px; position: absolute; width: 751px;">
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox5" runat="server" style="z-index: 93; left: 10px; top: 40px; position: absolute; margin-top: 0px;"></asp:TextBox>
       
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox4" runat="server" style="z-index: 95; left: 170px; top: 40px; position: absolute;"></asp:TextBox>      
       
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox3" runat="server" style="z-index: 94; top: 40px; position: absolute; left: 330px;"></asp:TextBox>
 
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox2" runat="server" style="z-index: 93; left: 490px; top: 40px; position: absolute; width: 128px;"></asp:TextBox>
       
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" style="z-index: 92; left: 640px; top: 40px; position: absolute"></asp:TextBox>
</div>
<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" style="z-index: 91; left: 14px; top: 90px; position: absolute" Text="Button" />
</form>
</body>

                                              
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by: Omego2KPosted on 2009-10-09 at 14:02:20ID: 25538854

Actually yeah just place them next to each other haha, simplest is always the best.

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