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Darin Kadrioski 05/22/2006

Basic Manipulations

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• Line 7: This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of methods available to Elms, but is intended
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• Line 13: Use this method to set the 'left' attribute of the Elm, relative to its parent element. <b>Note</b> that this
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• Line 25: If you needed to set both the top and left at the same time, then calling setSize can save you some overhead.