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How to set control to absolute positioning automatically on drag-drop

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As many of you have noticed, Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and Visual web Developer Express 2008 Beta 2 did not allow you to drop control on design surface and immediately begin dragging it around using absolute positioning. Instead, you had to invoke Format | Position... to set absolute position before dragging the control. Many of users said that it was rather inconvenient and VS 2005 was able to set position automatically. We did listen and in the RTM there is a new option in Tools | Options | HTML Designer | CSS:

It works the same way it did in VS 2005. When the option is checked, designer automatically adds style="position:absolute" to the control dropped from toolbox. You can then drag control by its white tab and position it where you want it.

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  • Anonymous
    September 18, 2007
    PingBack from http://msdnrss.thecoderblogs.com/2007/09/19/how-to-set-control-to-absolute-positioning-automatically-on-drag-drop/

  • Anonymous
    September 23, 2007
    Thanks, a great addition to the splendid program :)

  • Anonymous
    September 26, 2007
    This property isn't there in my VS2008? Is there some sort of plug in to get it?

  • Anonymous
    September 26, 2007
    This property was added after Beta 2

  • Anonymous
    October 09, 2007
    but i downloaded latest vs 2008, this is still beta 2. how to update to this feature?

  • Anonymous
    October 09, 2007
    There won't be any new updates until RTM. So you'll have to wait until the release is available.

  • Anonymous
    October 18, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    November 28, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    November 28, 2007
    Label is effectively a <span> element, which is flow element. It has to have style="display:block" to become positioned.

  • Anonymous
    December 12, 2007
    It seems that HyperLinks can't be positioned absolutely... Even for controls it is not as flexible as VS 2005. It accounts for the Migration Cost!