Maria Falconer wrote: > Hi all > I¹m trying to position a table on a page but when I use a tag like this > #two { > position: absolute; > top: 12%; > left: 30%; > } > > which I have used to position objects before it changes the size of the > table making it much narrower. > Can anyone explain what is happening here please > It will take someone else to explain why absolute positioning is not good in this situation; and, why it does what it does. > http://homepage.mac.com/lenarran/LabhaoiseSite/labhaoise_index1.htm > TIA > Maria > This is a quick-start toward /one way/ you might do things without absolute positioning or a table<http://www.chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/cssd/layout23.html>. Your quicktime thing is crashing my browsers, btw. Embedding quicktime to a valid document is a FAQ on the Web Design-L, and Web Standards Group lists-- you might check with either of those lists about that-- see the css-d-wiki(address at bottom of this mail) for the addresses of those lists(I think they are in the 'off-topic' section). Best, ~dL
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