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Fusion: Lesson 4 - Tables and Layers

With Fusion designers can position content anywhere onto the page simply by drawing straight onto the page. Layers can be used as overlapping elements on a page, useful for dynamic effects. To generate such pages in Page view, click on the General tab of the Layout Properties palette and select Fixed Page Layout in the HTML output section.

Preventing layers from overlapping, however, has important implications for page design. Browsers such as Internet Explorer 4 and Navigator 4 and above can display layers as they are placed onto the screen, with overlapping objects appearing more or less where they are placed by the designer. Earlier browsers, however, cannot interpret layers and absolute positioning, so Fusion can output layers as tables for backwards compatibility. Select Regular Tables, All Browsers from the Layout Properties palette to ensure that layers are converted to tables: any overlapping layers that are not supported in such browsers appear with a red exclamation mark.

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