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Working with Divs and AP Elements
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Once positioned, guides can be moved at any time. You can visually position guides by dragging them
to a new location on the page; when your cursor is over the guide, you’ll see a tooltip with the precise
horizontal or vertical coordinate of the guide in pixels from the top or left of the page, respectively.
To remove a single guide, drag it back into the horizontal or vertical ruler. You can remove all guides
on the page by selecting View ➪ Guides ➪ Clear Guides. If you just want to hide the guides, choose
View ➪ Guides ➪ Show Guides again or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+; (Command+;).
FIGURE 11-16
Guides work well in a CSS-P layout design environment.
Displaying guide measurements
One of the slicker guide features implemented in Dreamweaver is the display of distance measure-
ment. If you have a single horizontal or vertical guide onscreen and press Ctrl (Command), Dream-
weaver will show you the distance from the guide to the window’s edge in your cursor area. Place
your cursor between two guides of the same type (either horizontal or vertical), press Ctrl (Com-
mand), and you’ll see the distance that separates them, as shown in Figure 11-17.
Locking and snapping guides
Dreamweaver gives you complete control over guides and positionable page elements. You can lock
your guides so that they are not accidentally moved when repositioning element ...