Comments on: Absolute Positioning – A Brief Introduction

By: Las Vegas craps rules

Las Vegas craps rules — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:25:48 +0000

This doesn’t really apply to “Absolute” positioning. I think the title of this post is misleading a bit. I’m not using any floated elements on the page, but IE6 is rendering one absolutely-positioned container incorrectly (it is treating the margin of its parent element as if it were the actually outer boundary for the sake of positioning.I tried adding “clear: both” to the style rules for this element, hoping maybe it was just some weird quirk, but of course, it did nothing.

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Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:01:48 +0000

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By: Robin Cannon

Robin Cannon — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:56:39 +0000

These days I tend to see if I can, by preference, use Positioning tags to define the overall layout. I find it gives a more solid base of layout that glitches less. Still can use floats within that overall base, and there are certainly situations where the Positioning causes issues in itself, but generally Positioning would be my personal preference.

By: Mathew

Mathew — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:36:39 +0000

Robin – what do you prefer to use if you have the choice Float or Positioning tags

By: Hemanth

Hemanth — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:09:01 +0000

Wow, thanks for the post. I was looking to for a way to change my website’s template, this will help for sure.