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Has anyone seen a designer's caluculator extension for dreamweaver to measure elements in a cascade?

Jul 13, 2012 6:18 AM

Has anyone seen a designer's caluculator extension for dreamweaver to measure elements margins' and paddings' in a cascade?

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1. Zabeth69,

Jul 13, 2012 7:47 AM in reply to RandomFrequency

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I have not seen anything like that. I tend to use the "Inspect" function to visualize the margins and paddings instead of doing math...

Beth

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2. adninjastrator,

Jul 13, 2012 8:22 AM in reply to RandomFrequency

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Another option is to also use Firebug for FF:
http://getfirebug.com/
and/or Developers Toolbar for IE:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18359
These are not DW based but still can provide a good look (visually as well as css rules) at the various elements on the page and in a sort of cascading view... showing the base css, any overriding rules, etc all the way down into the nested elements.
I use both because sometimes the two browser render things slightly different.
Best wishes,
Adninjastrator

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3. cdeatherage,

Jul 14, 2012 6:39 AM in reply to RandomFrequency

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I don't know if this idea is of any help to you, but I found an app called "A Ruler for Windows" that I downloaded. It superimposes a customizable ruler (e.g., switch between inches to pixels, lengthen/shorten, display vertical or horizontally) that you can position over a web page to measure size of elements and space. I don't recall if there is a Mac version, but I would guess there is.

Chris

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