i need some fireworks help!!!

[stev0]

So i'm making this navigation bar, it is basically a rectangle with a drop shadow and some other effects. In fireworks it is the entire width of my 760 pixel canvas, now that is all good for those people that are running 800x600 res with their browser maximized, or the people that have their browser window at 800x600. But the people that have higher resolutions see a dead stop to that rectangle. I know about setting table widths to 100% so that it will streach whatever is in the table to the maximum width, and with fireworks when I export it basically turns it all into a table. So how do I make my little rectangle 100% instead of a set size? Is there a setting in fireworks? I opened it up in dreamweaver and tried to change it there but it messes eveything up because of the shim's and auto slices that fireworks adds. Please help!!!

... this probably should be in the software forum but there is so much more traffic here at ot... thanks for looking!!!

 

[Czar]

you would have to cut it down and set some part of it as a table cell background. Post the image here so we can see better what you are trying to do.

 

[stev0]

pic here

of course the buttons are different and all lined up and everything, and it looks a little different but that is basically what I'm trying to do. right now that is what i have, a 760 pixel wide image... err table or whatever fireworks makes it. one top of that though, because of rollovers each button is sliced, that creates little cells and spacers to make everything line up the right way when the page loads. all i really want to do is make that green stretch to whatever the viewer sizes his browser window to. a perfect example is this nav bar. www.doxonline.com

 

[Czar]

First, dont use Fireworks to make html code, it doesnt do very good job at it, creates spacer images all over the place.

If its a single color then just create a table with that background color and put the images in a tablecell then. If you want graphics then create a 1px wide image or whatever with the height you need and set is as a table background image.

 

[stev0]

so I make the image any size? the actual bar of color that I have now is 760 pix. it's a gradiant from transparent to that greenish color, then with a drop shadow and a bit of a bevel to it, then set it as the table back round.. will that just strech it or tile it or what is it going to do to the image? it's not going to get distorted willl it? (heh sorry I would give it a try but I'm not on a computer with software like that)

 

[Czar]

so I make the image any size? the actual bar of color that I have now is 760 pix. it's a gradiant from transparent to that greenish color, then with a drop shadow and a bit of a bevel to it, then set it as the table back round.. will that just strech it or tile it or what is it going to do to the image? it's not going to get distorted willl it? (heh sorry I would give it a try but I'm not on a computer with software like that)

Having it gradiant makes things... almost impossible, except if you can set the background image width to 100% but I´m not sure if you can do that. If you must use a gradiant image then you better skip making it stretch. best bet is to have the page width stuck at 760px by using a table.

http://notendur.centrum.is/~czar/sollicito/index.htm
old page I did long time ago, its a fixed sized table, aligned left, you could align it center to.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

if i understood right, all you have to do is <img width="100%">

 

[Czar]

no, cant remember if this is how to do it

<table style="width:100%;background-image:b.gif"> or something like that