macromedia Dreamweaver 8

Positioning an Object

The arrow keys will move the layer one pixel at a time. Holding down the Shift key and pressing an arrow key will move the layer by the current grid increment.

You can also type a negative number in the L (Left) text field at the top of the Property inspector to move the layer off the screen. The top-left corner of the browser is the zero point (covered early in this lesson, when you worked with rulers), where Dreamweaver’s horizontal and vertical rulers intersect when they are visible. Anything to the right or down from that point is a positive value; anything to the left or up from that point is a negative value. To make the layer begin outside of the visible window of the browser you have set the starting point of the ...