Breaking free of tables: take two (abs vs rel positioning) — 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	[quote]all absolutely positioned. Now I want the content to flow around these elements. [/quote] From the [url=http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visuren.html#positioning-scheme]spec -[/url] [quote] Absolutely positioned boxes are taken out of the normal flow. This means they have no impact on the layout of later siblings.[/quote] My advice: leave absolute positioning alone. Almost everyone attempting to go from tabled layouts to CSS goes straight to absolute positioning. It's an evil trap, and should be avoided for nay 'normal' layout. My advice is to simply not specify any positioning at all. Things will default to 'relative', and will allow a natural page flow. It is much simpler to figure out how to work things out the way you want them with relative positioning than it will be to figure out how to make things 'flow' with objects that simply o not flow. [url=http://in-dented.com/sigs.html][img]http://www.in-dented.com/sigs/knot_sig_32.gif[/img][/url] Loading...
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