Barney,

I know you solved your problem already, but I wanted to correct 
something you wrote for your benefit and others who are reading.

Barney Carroll wrote:
> Or at least, in my 
> mind 'right' should override 'left' because you can't have something 
> that is simultaneously specifically positioned from the left and the 
> right. 

This is not true. You can, and it's a very useful effect. If you 
position something from both the left and right sides, it effectively 
sets a width for an absolute object, because it dictates where the left 
side and right side should be placed and thus how much space spans 
between those sides. This is useful when you need a certain width but 
can't specify a width because you need fluidity. Try it out and see.

Unfortunately, IE doesn't support this -- or at least IE 6 and lower 
didn't. I don't know about IE 7. I hope it does allow you to set both 
right and left or top and bottom now.

Zoe

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


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