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From: John Foliot - bytown internet
Date: Mar 25, 2002 12:58PM


A review of the source files shows the footer information ahead of the
"content" information on the home page. For user agents which do not support
CSS, they will render the text in the linear fashion it is constucted in.

Using the DIV IDs in the code, you present in this order:
<div id="header"...>
<div id="navigation1"...>
<div id="footer"...>
and then finally,
<div id="bookimage1"...> and
<div id="title"...>, <div id="text1"...>

So that's how a non-CSS application will interpret the information. You
must use care that you do not confuse positioning with ordering,
structure(logic) vs. display.

As for how to fix it in Dreamweaver? (Use HomeSite <grin>). Crack open the
code (view code) and re-order it properly.

JF


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Thatcher [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: March 25, 2002 2:30 PM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Subject: CSS positioning with Dreamweaver
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Glasshauss (www.glasshaus.com) are publishers of a terrific book on web
> accessibility. Their new site has some problems. They have been
> informed of
> those problems and will attend to them, I hope.
>
> There is one problem for which I need some advice. The pages use CSS to
> position text elements on the page, and the information is not
> spoken in the
> correct sequence. The developer responded to me that the positioning is
> imposed by Dreamweaver. Question: is there any way to insure that the
> content entered with dreamweaver will be linearized (spoken) in
> the same way
> that it appears on the display?
>
> Jim
> http://jimthatcher.com
> 512-306-0931
>
>
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