Michael Milligan<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Monday, July 14, 2003 11:31 AM, said:

> Thanks, Stephen, I was afraid of that. Have you ever used other style
> editors? I mean if one is shuffling from ap to another is there a
> better application for working style? Right now I'm hand coding it
> all but think I'll experiment with the built in CSS tool in DW-MX
> today. 

Continuing with my software evangelism, I have to recommend TopStyle by BradSoft.  
It's written by the guy that developed HomeSite.  Try it out with their free TopStyle 
Lite 2.0 (I think this might even be packaged with DW:MX), but if you are serious 
about CSS, spend the ~$80 for the latest version of TopStyle Pro (currently 3.1).  
It's awesome!  The newest version even supports syntax highlighting for (x)html and 
several scripting languages (javaScript, PHP, ASP, maybe some others).  It has a split 
screen view like in DW:MX where you can code in the top and see the results applied to 
a page of your choice in the preview screen below.  It even supports server-side 
mappings, so you can display dynamic data within the program (another thing 
Dreamweaver doesn't do too well).  Perhaps the biggest benefit of using TopStyle in 
any incarnation is the CSS property inspector.  It gives you a FULL list of available 
CSS properties divided first by the level of backward compatibility you require (CSS1 
or CSS2) and then by category (such as font, display, aural properties, etc.)
 
> While I have your ear, maybe you can offer advice? I'm having a little
> trouble floating a div (big graphic in its own div) and getting text
> in the parent div to align vertically centered (middle). Any ideas?

I'd be happy to take a stab at it, if you can post some code or a link.  My general 
advice on floats is: "use extreme caution".  They can be extremely buggy.  Shoot me a 
link though and I'll see what I can do.

-Stephen
http://www.mechavox.com

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