>>>>There must be something I am missing about the positioning of controls on an ASP.NET web page. (ASP.NET 2, VS 2005). Drag and drop is not working the way I am used to with desktop IDEs like VFP, Delphi, and VB.NET. When I drag and drop from the ASP.NET toolbox onto a page in Design mode, the control snaps into position next to the previously placed control, regardless of where I try to drop it. Similarly, within the Design window I can't drag a control to a different position, above or below another control, etc. What's up?
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>>>Right click on page and set to grid layout (flow layout is preferred though).
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>>Oooooh. That's an ugly choice, isn't it? I do want flow layout. What would be great would be the ability to have vertical flow layout and horizontal grid layout.
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>>Will play around with it a little. Thanks for the info.
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>With flow layout you can simply have a table to position your controls as you want.


Aha! That may be exactly what I want.

What I really need to do is study HTML some more. I never worked with earlier versions of ASP, and certainly not the "classic" combo of HTML and Notepad. Am probably making a typical rookie mistake now of thinking that because the ASP.NET IDE looks like familiar desktop language IDEs, it will behave like them. The HTML is still there, just disguised to a certain extent.

Just what I need, yet another new thing to learn. I think I am up to ASP, VB (book learning only so far), the VS 2005 IDE, and now HTML. I probably better throw XML and CSS in there, too, as lower priorities. What's that old saying? -- "Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it" ;-)