Hi Christopher,
Before you even start to think about CSS, you need to understand some key HTML
concepts, which aren't really relevant to this list. Try a search for "HTML
tutorial" or similar. However, a few basic points:
* In HTML, <name> represents an 'opening' tag and </name> represents its
matching 'closing' tag. Everything between those can be thought of as content
that is classified according to those tags. So "<p>a paragraph</p>" means 'the
text "a paragraph" is a paragraph'.
* Certain tags (or 'elements') can be nested, such as the <div> element you
previously mentioned:
<div>
<div>some text in here ...</div>
</div>
Note that, reading through this excerpt in order, you get 'open tag', 'open
tag', 'close tag', 'close tag'. The order of these represents the structure of
your document.
* Tabbing, spacing, etc. *broadly speaking* is irrelevant. There are certain
cases where spacing is significant, but - generally speaking - all you need to
know for now is that:
1.
<div>some text</div>
2.
<div>
some text
</div>
and 3.
<div>
some
text</div>
are all interchangeable.
Please feel free to mail me directly with any follow-up questions. I think this
is off-topic, though, so we should call an end to this thread on the list for
now.
Cheers,
- Bobby
--- On Sun, 6/15/08, Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [css-d] <div> ontop of a <div> ?
> To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org
> Date: Sunday, June 15, 2008, 12:48 AM
> I decided to start from the beginning so I deleted all
> styles and
> started new and build from there, here is a background
> base <div> tag:
>
> http://www.walkfar.ca/main2.html
>
> Two problems it does not repeat along the X or the Y you
> see there is a
> border, second now if I nest a <div> within this
> <div> as a starting
> point I assume I tab below this main <div> as so
>
> <div> <div>
>
> to nest, correct?
>
> Gunlaug Sørtun wrote:
> > Christopher wrote:
> >> So you are basically tricking the browser with CSS
> ?
> >
> > There's no tricks involved in CSS. It is all about
> achieving visual
> > appearance by applying style-rules in accordance with
> standards, and
> > thereby making browsers do their job in accordance
> with same standards
> > so they (hopefully) recreate the visual appearance at
> the user-end.
> >
> > Sometimes we'll have to add workarounds for
> weak/old browsers that don't
> > support particular parts of the standards. For
> example: IE/win is weak
> > and doesn't support much of any standard, and its
> "support" is partly
> > quite buggy. Making IE/win act as if it supports
> standards, _can_ be
> > "quite tricky" at times.
> >
> >> Cause I want to have a <div> nested but in
> different positions.
> >
> > Sure, that's rarely ever a problem - although it
> can be problematic in
> > the sense that there's little or no room for
> mistakes.
> >
> > You can offset a div from its original position in a
> number of ways,
> > each with its positive and negative effects. Combining
> offset-methods is
> > also possible, and sometimes preferable.
> >
> > What will work for you depends on your exact case -
> complete layout and
> > visual appearance, which I have no clear impression of
> at this point so
> > can not suggest practical solution(s) for.
> >
> > regards
> > Georg
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