Right Align a Block Element within another Block Element — OZONE Asylum, home of the Mad Scientists

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	That works, but I need it to act more like a layer... so that text can appear over the top of it. I found no way to align right, but did discover that within a block element absolute blocks will align according to the parent element as long as you don't use: top and left, but will align correctly with margin-left and margin-top. So, the answer for me is to calculate the difference of the parent width and the absolute block width and set the margin-left property. Problem with this: I am forced to know the parent width. What If I don't know the parent width? It would be nice to be able to float this layer to the right of the parent.... any clues how to do this? Karl Loading...
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