It's actually a consequence of the CSS box model, which makes a lot of other things simpler, and means that figuring out how to position things isn't turing com

It's actually a consequence of the CSS box model, which makes a lot of other things simpler, and means that figuring out how to position things isn't turing complete or something. I think the secret is that maybe 10% of CSS writers actually have read more than the bare minimum to getting their layouts to work ( I am not among them, mind you).