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By default when a transition is applied, objects will only slide in/out to the edge of the
web page. If you would like objects to start from the browser window edges, rather than
the web page edges, deselect the CLIP TO PAGE edges checkbox in the Website tab (on
page 306) of the Web Properties dialog.

Special Layers

There are several special types of layer. They appear in the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY and
can be turned on and off as usual, but behave slightly differently.

BACKGROUND LAYERS are non-printing layers that appear at the bottom of the document,
under everything else. When you apply a color to the page background (drag and drop
color from the color line) this will create a PAGE BACKGROUND layer automatically.
Normally this is locked.

You can also set the color of the pasteboard (the area around the page) by dragging a
color from the color line and dropping it on the pasteboard. This creates a PASTEBOARD
BACKGROUND layer automatically. Again, this layer is locked.

When saving a document as a website, Background layers are converted to web page
backgrounds. See the Getting Started (on page 18) chapter for more details on setting
web page backgrounds and using the background layers.

The GUIDES LAYER is where guidelines or guide objects are placed. When you create a
guideline this automatically creates a Guides layer. You can select the Guides layer and
place anything you like on this layer - and it will act like a snapping guide (if you have
'snap to guide' on).

See Guide Objects and Guidelines in the Object Handling chapter to find out more!

Hiding Layers

The rightmost two columns of icons in the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY control the visibility and
locking of layers.

Clicking on the open eye icon will hide the layer on the page, and the icon will turn to
a closed eye . Clicking again will revert the layer to be visible.

When any item is hidden, it becomes invisible on the page and can no longer be seen or
selected. The way to get hidden items back is to click its closed eye icon.
Alternatively you can click the MORE... button and select SHOW ALL option, which un-hides
all items on the current page.