You are trying to float something and absolute poistion it at the same time.
On 10/6/05, artcoder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Below is the entire content of my HTML file. I want my div#boat to be > overlaid on top of the text. I thought the below CSS would work. But > do I need to do in Javascript? > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 > Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1- > transitional.dtd"> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> > <head> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859- > 1" /> > <title>Untitled Document</title> > </head> > <body> > <div style="width: 200px;"> > This is some filler text on my page. With "boat" div underneath. > What I want is for the boat div to be floating on top of this text. > </div> > <div id="boat" style="display: block; float: left; position: absolute; > height: 100px; width: 200px; top: 200; left: 300; background- > color:#FFFFCC; border: 1px solid blue;"> > why doesn't this float? > </div> > </body> > </html> > > > ================== > artcoder (at) http://webmarksonline.com > ================== > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > Supported by evolt.org <http://evolt.org> -- > http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
