Re: Placing textfields on image: how? [Thanks]

Jean Pierre Malrieu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.webobjects.devel
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I wanted to thank all the persons who replied and put me on the right  
track (Markus, Jerry, Paul).
Sorry for bothering the list with what was a html/css question rather  
than a WO question.

JPM

Le 10 avr. 06 à 14:09, Markus Ruggiero a écrit :

>
> On 10.04.2006, at 08:10, Jean Pierre Malrieu wrote:
>
>>
>>>
>>> Guess 2: you want to create text fields "above" an image - that's  
>>> a css problem, see layers.
>>
>> This is my problem, but I want those textfields to be dynamically  
>> positionned. I mean that there can be an arbitrary number of them,  
>> and they can be placed at whatever position depending on the info  
>> I will passing to the component.
>>
> I guess you have some way to figure out where each field is  
> supposed to go. Now you "just" write a partial component and put a  
> <div> as its outermost content. Put the image as the background- 
> image of this div. Create a repetition that contains one field. Add  
> a style-Tag to the the field and populate its content via the  
> components java code. Use the above mentioned logic to calculate  
> top/bottom/left/right/whatever positions. So the trick is to create  
> the necessary CSS style to position the fields at runtime. Using a  
> repetition gives you "an arbitrary number" of fields.
>
> Does this help?
>
> have a nice day
> ---markus---
>
>>
>> Thanks for trying to guess what my question meant...
>>
>> JPM
>>
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