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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Okay, I'm having this issue with CSS that seems simple but isn't turning out to be. I'm working with this piece of crap CMS (clickability's cmPublish - don't friggin use it, tho i know you probably wouldn't even think of it) so the content is generated. What i'm dealing with is a problem of height pushing things out of place. Here's what I'm trying right now, the page setup, from top to bottom and left to right: 1- .Masthead {position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px;} 2-.LocBar {position: absolute; width: 770px; height: 16px; left: 0px; top: 132px; background-color: #636163;color: #F9D355; font-size: 10pt;text-indent: 150px;} 3-.LLcol {position: absolute; width: 140px; height: 100%; left: 0px; top: 148px;} 3A-.Main {position: absolute; left: 150px; top: 148px; width: 620; height: auto; clear: both;} 3Aa-.MainCol {width: 370px; height: 350px;} 3Ab-.MainRcol {position: absolute; width: 240px; height: 350px; left: 520px; top: 148px; clear: right;} 3Ac-.MainBcol {width: 620px; height: auto; float: right; clear: both;} I'm having no luck. What I need to happen is this: I need the nav bar to take the left - it can use the full 100% height. Then, there's the .MainCol and the .MainRcol - those go side by side, with .MainBcol underneath them both. .MainCol is a set size, while MainRcol varies according to the content. Then, there's MainBcol, which takes the with of both MainCol and MainRcol and fits below them. Can this work? How much do I depend on CSS to do this? The thing is is that its template design, so CSS is very nice to use for site wide changes...also, when do I float content and when not? How can all of this go together while still assuring that all of my content wont just over run the boundaries when the window is made smaller. See, the thing is, I can't for the life of me figure out how to mix relative CSS with static. Argh. Please. Any help would be really great. This is taking faaaaar too much time. Anyone who would like to look at what's going on, please just go to: stage.www.techworthy.com use the user name: advice@ozone.com password: 123ozone thanks as always all... if you want to see the whole style sheet its at [url=http://www.techworthy.com/includes/stylesheet]www.techworthy.com/includes/stylesheet[/url] [url=http://www.drisson.com/] [img]http://www.drisson.com/sig.gif[/img] [/url] [This message has been edited by grats42 (edited 11-11-2002).] Loading...
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