No. Relative positioning is relative to the element's position when it is position:static (the default). The item is still in document flow.
Absolute positioning positions an element relative to its parent in the DOM that is not positioned statically. If the element's parent is positioned statically, it goes up the DOM. If nothing is positioned above it (ie, absolute or relative), then the viewport is used as the parent. Sandra Clark ============================== http://www.shayna.com Training in Cascading Style Sheets and Accessibility -----Original Message----- From: Coldfusion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 2:50 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CCS Question So is it better to create a DIV and make everything within that relative? DIV ID=MAIN DIV ID=SUB (this would be set to relative to the MAIN div? TIA! -----Original Message----- From: Jon Clausen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 2:21 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CCS Question A couple things that I see from a quick glance: 1 ) Firefox is getting it right. You've positioned your #navcontainer for the left menu absolutely with a top of 89px. That's exactly where it's at in FF. 2) Many of your container elements are positioned absolutely from the top - including your footer. That's going to make your life very difficult since you're gong to have to adjust many of those items for every page. FF and IE handle absolute positioning a bit different. You should consider using relative positioning wherever possible and adjusting the margins, padding, and floats accordingly to position the containers where they need to be. Also, here's a great resource for understanding CSS behavior between browsers: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html HTH, Jon On Jan 11, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Coldfusion wrote: > Any idea why the menu lays out fine in IE but not in FF? > http://www.mindkeeper.net/test/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:266304 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
