Melissa Carraway wrote:
>>> http://ndc-mddev.isg.syssrc.com/html/about_overview.htm
>>>       
>> This is the same issue. I do not understand the question with regard to
>> the first paragraph cited here, or with regard to the last post of Zoe
>> in one of your threads. Besides #ndc-sub-06, there is no "float and
>> margins" on this page, its all positioned absolutely.
>>
>> Imagine you had no position:absolute to play with.
>>     
>
> I don't know what I would do if I had no absolute positioning to play with. 
> That was the first way I learned and for me it worked okay for a while. What 
> am I doing wrong?

Using absolute positioning. :-) Again, you should *not* use absolute 
positioning as a layout method, period. You really need to learn about 
document flow and floats. A quick link dump of the essentials:

http://css.maxdesign.com.au/selectutorial/
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=A33F5
http://www.brainjar.com/css/positioning/
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=AC008
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/
http://www.complexspiral.com/publications/containing-floats/
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=E0989953B6F20B41

Zoe

-- 
Zoe M. Gillenwater
Design Services Manager
UNC Highway Safety Research Center
http://www.hsrc.unc.edu


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