At 2:21 PM -0600 3/28/06, Jay Blanchard wrote:
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what's wrong with absolute positioning?
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Because there is only one absolute; that there are no absolutes.
IE, FF, Opera and others all treat the box model differently.
That's if you use margins and padding. The way I understand it, the
box model --
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/box.html
-- is problematic because M$ looks at things differently than
everyone else (i.e., W3C et al) -- which has led to many different
fixes (hacks), such as:
http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html
But, if you are trying to absolutely position things, then using
absolute without padding and margins is the way to go.
For example, I've had a couple of clients who wanted their web sites
to look exactly like their designers illustrations without any
alteration or slack whatsoever on any browser. The only way I did it
was to use absolute positioning.
But, like everything else (including this topic), it has it's place.
tedd
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