Michael Leibson wrote: > (With all the workarounds necessary for noncompliant browsers, are > you really any further ahead than you were before CSS?)
(definitely! I can create a bigger and more complex mess _with_ CSS, than anyone could do before CSS... :-) ) > I've found that giving a box element absolute positioning stops its > vertical margins from collapsing.* Any good reasons why one > shouldn't use absolute positioning everywhere that collapsing margins > is a threat? Yes. Absolute positioning is too inflexible to be used as a "fix" for collapsing margins. > I've also found (sigh) that IE6 suddenly ignores paragraph > margin-right when that paragraph is absolutely positioned (it > respects all other margins, however). What is THAT all about?? One of IE6' many weak spots, and a good reason not to use A:P as a "fix". A:P is useful for other purposes. In your case I would "reduce" the styles/source code to something like... <http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/test_07_5080.html> I have commented the basics. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
