If you give a container position: relative, but no top or left value,
it'll be drawn as if it weren't positioned, but any absolutely
positioned elements inside it will be positioned with respect to it.
position: absolute is relative to the last positioned ancestor element
(positioned = has position: relative or position: absolute).
Viascape List wrote:
I have a page that is generating an order confirmation that is broken
down into a whole bunch of small tables. I have redone pretty much
everything with css, but I am leaving the tables for now because the
html table code is generated on the fly by PHP script that I inherited
with the code-base. On one of the pages I was able to use absolute
positioning to position the tables absolutely with respect to the
<form> element that contained them. For that application it worked
beautifully. However, on the next page which has the same table but
without the <form> or <input> elements (we go from an order page to an
order confirmation page, where it re-lists everything you just typed
in), the absolute positioning renders with respect to the page instead
of the containing <div>. My favorite reference, Core CSS 2nd Ed. by
Schengili-Roberts, claims that absolute positioning renders with
respect to the page always. This is obviously not true (at least
anymore). I am testing with Firefox 1.0.4 and IE6, which display the
same behavior in this regard. Does anyone know the details of
container elements for absolute positioning: what will and will not
render abs contained elements "properly"? Any help is greatly
appreciated.
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