Page Layout Basics > Repositioning, resizing, and grouping objects
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Repositioning, resizing, and grouping objects


Adobe GoLive provides multiple ways for you to position objects precisely on your Web page and size them to meet your page layout requirements. By dragging, you can reposition and resize objects. Using the toolbar, you can reposition, resize, and group objects. The Transform palette provides all of these options in addition to allowing you to change the stacking order of hot spots on an image map or tracks in the QuickTime Movie Viewer that overlap each other.

You need to first place some objects on a layout grid before you can reposition them by dragging, entering values on the toolbar, or using the Transform palette. In addition, you can only group objects that are placed on a layout grid. A benefit to grouping objects is that you can then move them on the layout grid as a single unit, thus ensuring that the spacing between them is kept intact.

To reposition an object:

1 Click to select the object that you want to reposition.

2 Do one of the following:
  • Drag the object to the desired position.
  • On the toolbar, enter values in pixels for Horizontal Position and Vertical Position.
  • Choose Window > Transform. In the Transform palette, under Position, enter a value in pixels in the left text box for the horizontal position. Enter a value in pixels in the right text box for the vertical position.

    • To resize an object:

    1 Click to select the object that you want to resize.

    2 Do one of the following:
  • Drag one of the object's handles.

    • Note: To resize the object proportionally, Shift-drag one of the object's corner handles. To preview as you resize, Ctrl-drag one of the object's handles. To preview as you resize and resize the object proportionally, Ctrl-Shift-drag one of the object's corner handles.

    Nonvisual and visual resizing
  • On the toolbar, enter values in pixels for Width and Height.
  • Choose Window > Transform. In the Transform palette, select Constrain Proportions if you want to resize the object proportionally. Under Size, enter a value in pixels in the left text box for the width or in the right text box for the height.

    • To group objects:

    1 Select the objects on the layout grid that you want to group. Click to select the first object, and then Shift-click to select each additional object. (You can't group floating boxes.)

    2 Do one of the following:
  • Click the Group button on the toolbar.
  • Choose Window > Transform. In the Transform palette, under Grouping, click the Group button () on the left.

    • To ungroup objects:

    1 Click to select the group of objects that you want to ungroup.

    2 Do one of the following:
  • Click the Ungroup button on the toolbar.
  • Choose Window > Transform. In the Transform palette, under Grouping, click the Ungroup button () on the right.

    • To change the stacking order of objects:

    1 Select the object that you want to change in stacking order. (You can change the stacking order of hot spots on image maps or tracks in the QuickTime Movie Viewer that overlap each other. You can't change the stacking order of floating boxes.)

    2 Choose Window > Transform.

    3 In the Transform palette, under Z-Order, click the Bring to Front button () to bring the selected object to the front, or click the Bring to Back button () to bring the selected object to the back.

    Page Layout Basics > Repositioning, resizing, and grouping objects