>>>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.
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>Aha! That may be exactly what I want.
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>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.
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>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" ;-)


I always use a table to place the controls. Create a table and drop your server-side controls in it. You can easily tell it to merge cells when needed. VS 2005 has a menu bar called "Layout" (when in Design page mode) that easily allows you to manipulate tables.