You seem to be referring to absolute and relative referencing of controls when dragged over from the toolbox.
Well, it's a long story and I've forgotten the most interesting parts, so I'll try to be brief. Someone please correct me if my memory fails me. In VS 2002/2003, when you dragged over a control from the toolbox, it would be positioned wherever you wanted it to. This default absolute positioning behaviour (using CSS selectors, of course) raised a lot of hue and cry in the community because that's not how most website designers design their pages. In VS 2005 and VS 2008, this was then provided as a selectable option. (Tools -> Options -> HTML Designer -> CSS Stying/Positioning tab) On Aug 15, 8:38 pm, Jason <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I know this might be a very basic question, but perhaps someone can > help me out. > > 1) I'm developing an ASP.NET Web Application in Visual Studio 2008. > 2) I have a web page main.aspx > 3) I'm trying to drag labels and text boxes onto the web page, but > they go to the top left part of the screen. I would like to have it > behave as it would in a vb windows forms application and basically go > to the area of the screen I would like...not to the top left. > > Is there any way to achieve this? Do I need to get DreamWeaver or > something like that in order to achieve this formatting functionality? > > What do most ASP.NET Web Application developers in Visual Studio 2008 > do with this type of a problem? > > Thanks > Jason
