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I think its quite a good site for css layout examples... I remember discovering how position:absolute was in fact _relative_ to the enclosing div/element, ayaa

by gord 18y ago

I think its quite a good site for css layout examples... I remember discovering how position:absolute was in fact _relative_ to the enclosing div/element, ayaaay! another css layout approach given here - http://www.digital-web.com/articles/everything_you_know_about_CSS_Is_wrong/ http://www.digital-web.com/articles/everything_you_know_abou... [ although ie6 seems to be broken wrt tabular divs, eek ]

blasdel 18y ago
position:absolute only behaves that way relative to a positioned parent -- if the parent doesn't have the position attribute set, it keeps looking up the hierarchy until it finds one that is (or is the root).
- pmjordan 18y ago
  While we're nit-picking: if the parent doesn't have the position attribute set isn't quite accurate: the containing block must not have static positioning (which it does by default), but one of absolute, relative or fixed.
  - gord 18y ago
    thats kind of my point - its not trivially obvious that "absolute" is not absolute. I know ... RTFM.. but then theres what browsers actually do as a mixin. Hence good examples of motifs that are reasonably portable are all the more valuable.