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Guides
Guides are horizontal and vertical lines used to help in designing templates, for example when
positioning absolute positions boxes over a PDF background. They can only be used in Print
sections.
l Select View > Guides > Show guides to show or hide the guides and margins.
To add a guide, press the Insert Horizontal Guide or Insert Vertical Guide buttons on the
Toolbar.
To move a guide, click and drag it to a new location.
Click the Shift key while dragging to make the guide snap to the closest ruler tick.
Double-clicking a guide brings up its Edit dialog where its exact position can be adjusted.
l Select View > Guides > Lock guides to lock the guides in their current position.
l Select View > Guides > Snap to guides to make Positioned Boxes (and any other
objects that have their position set to absolute) snap to guides when moved within a few
pixels of them.
To delete a guide, double-click on it and press the Delete button.
Using the CSS position property
An element can be positioned independently of the text flow by changing its position property
to absolute or to relative (that is, relative to the 'parent', its container).
When an element is placed inside another element, such as a Box, changing its position
property to absolute positions the element absolutely inside its parent.
With the position property of an element set to absolute, the top or bottom and left or right
properties position the element inside its parent with exact values: pixels (px), centimeters (cm),
etc. Negative values are allowed.
Tip
You can quickly change the position property of an element in a Print section by right-
clicking it and selecting Convert to Absolute or Convert to Inline.
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