One suggestion. Controlling the position of the objects with <div>

I do not understand very much about html code, but when I want to place an
object (graphics, texts, tables, applets...) in a specific position, I use
two tricks: the invisible table and the tag <div>.

An invisible table is very easy to do it in Composer :) click click and
thats all. But using the tag <div> is more complicated.

For example:
If we want to place a text, table, applet or a grafic... in a specific (very
specific) position we have to do:

1- Click on "html tags" and select the text or in "html sources" and looking
for the text.

2- Click on menu, insert and then in html...

3- Then, write at the beginnig of the text the tag <div> and at the end the
tag </div>. Click in insert.

4- And then, a new "yellow" tag appears. Clicking on the properties of the
new "yellow" tag appears: html atributes, inline style, and javascript
events.

5- Click on INLINE STYLE.

6- Write in property: position

7- Write in value: absolute

8- And then, we continue writing property and value: for example

left-------10px
top------10px
width----250px
heigh----250px
z-index----1

9- Then, we have to watch if the object is in the place we really want,
going back to "normal view". If it is ok, we have finished, but if not, we
have to try again changing the properties mentionated before.

Do you know what I mean?

My seggestion is about it. Would it be possible this? --> Select the object
and inmediatly "transform" it in "tags div" with a click on a button or menu
and then control the position and the size of the div with the mouse (for
example, represented with a thin red line square). And one property to
control the depth, something like "send to back" or "send to front" to the
property "z-index".

I am not a programmer and I do not know how dificult is to do what I said,
but it would be very cool without any doubt. With this characteristic
Mozilla Composer would be even more flexible because we could move the
objects freely without taking into account the position of the cursor,
without being a slave to cursor or tables.

Thanks.



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