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Fusion: Lesson 4 - Tables and Layers
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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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