Topic: Don't know how to position these ;( (Page 1 of 1)

Ok here is my code:

<div style="width:290px; height:118px; border: solid 1px black; padding: 0;">

<span style="position: absolute; background: #FF0000; margin: 0; top: 0; left: 0; width: 37; height: 74;">1</span>

<span style="position: absolute; background: #00FF00; margin: 0; top: 74; left: 0; width: 37; height: 43;">2</span>

<span style="position: absolute; background: #0000FF; margin: 0; top: 0; left: 37; width: 212; height: 118;">3</span>

<span style="position: absolute; background: #FF00FF; margin: 0; top: 0; left: 249; width: 41; height: 35;">4</span>

<span style="position: absolute; background: #FFFF00; margin: 0; top: 35; left: 249; width: 41; height: 83;">5</span>

</div>

The spans's will have images in them later but for now I'm just laying it out. Everything fits perfectly! It's beatuiful! It's wonderful! It's also at the very very top left corner of the page! That's not what I wanted. I wanted it to be at the top left corner of the div that hold's everything but the absolute positioning completely ignores the div. I *THOUGHT* that absoulte and fixed were the same except that fixed would keep the spans in the div. I was wright but when I switch to fixed nothing is lined up all neat and pretty, in fact its os haphazard that I don't know what they're aligning to at all. How can I get this to work?

Schitzo

w00t! Never mind! figured it out on my own! (gotta love that feeling) I just had to make the outer div absolutely positioned as well and then set its position and the rest followed nicely! YAY!