CSS-P

[gwx03]

I admit I've never heard of CSS-P. I've always been using tables and such. Can anyone give me a brief idea of what CSS-P exactly is and whether it can be done in a WYSIWYG web editor like Dreamweaver. What are the benefits of CSS-P? I'm really very confused [xx(]

[devman]

CSS-P is a bit misleading. I am guessing that they mean CSS-Positioning, but this is just a part of CSS not a technology in itself.

CSS allows you to position elements on your page using a stylesheet instead of tables.

As for your WYSIWYG editors. Dreamweaver is getting better and better at using CSS for layouts.

http://www.brainjar.com/css/positioning/default.asp offers a good introduction to what it is all about if you are interested.

[gwx03]

I find the code similar to that used for dreamweaver layout tables. Thanks for the reply

[vitalise]

http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tut...son/boxes.html is a great site for learning how to layout your page using css.

[courtjester]

Or.. go to Dreamweaver Tutorials and take the CSS tutorial.. You won't learn any hand coding, but it will start you off. This is good to do just because I found it hillarious. As with most tutorials I don't make it past the first page before I understand the whole chapter... Cause after the first page you know what everything is and what it is used for.. so I jump head first into the darkness carrying nothing more than an over sized keyboard and a standard rolling-ball mouse.

[gwx03]

Hi,

I have just installed DW MX 2004. As they say, the CSS support is really revolutionary. I found their 'on demand seminars' rather useful and have got a grasp of CSS, albeit a loose one. I get an idea of what they are and how to use them. DW MX 2004 has a CSS styles editor which has a MUCH more inituitive and easy-to-use interface and really simplifies very much everything. I would suggest that you pick up a copy of it if you were to do much CSS scripting. BTW, CSS are just actually <DIV> tags and are 'containers' that store data. The <DIV> tags can be 'styled' with external style sheets and can be set CSS 'rules' and 'properties'. Style sheet syntax is basically a selector followed by a curly bracket with the properties inside, such as font, overflow, margin, etc... Nonetheless, its still hard for a newbie to start on CSS. Macromedia, in this new release, really took WYSIWYG browsers another revolutionary step forward, in the area of CSS. It even shows your CSS containers in the 'design' view. The much talked about 'revamp' proves to be true. In fact, I was surprised how much Macromedia could squeeze in a new release. Such CSS support is not often seen in WYSIWYG editors. If you're coding CSS, I think you should pick up DW 2004 MX and go to their on demand semminars.