Quoting Jeff Piazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm having a problem trying to position a paragraph at the bottom > right of a table cell. The only way I can think to accomplish this > is to declare the table cell "position: relative;", and then use > absolute positioning for the paragraph within the cell. However, > this seems to have the effect of positioning the paragraph relative > to the viewport, rather than a table cell. I don't understand why > this is, or what workaround will get me past this.
I ran into the same problem just a week ago, while creating my structured timeline (see <http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/01/21/structured-timeline/> for more; it's a long one). It turns out that, per CSS2.1: 9.3.1 (<http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#choose-position>), the result when table cells are set to 'position: relative' is undefined. I think most browsers are simply deciding that it doesn't apply, and thus the table cells don't establish containing blocks for their descendants. The only workaround I can think of is to stick some wrapper element, like a 'div', into each the cells and then relatively position it via CSS. Ugly, but it should work. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
