Re: [css-d] teaching float v. absolute positioning

2010-03-30 Thread Alan Gresley
Jared Stein wrote: Hey all, I teach web design and dev courses at the college level and often steer students away from absolute positioning as a first-choice CSS layout solution in favor of float. I've read John Faulds' post on the pitfalls of abs pos here

Re: [css-d] teaching float v. absolute positioning

2010-03-30 Thread CEO, Raynham Villas
Alan Gresley wrote: So absolutely positioned elements are offset (left, right, top and bottom) from this initial containing block (viewport) unless it has an ancestor with position relative, absolute or fixed [1]. If it refers back to this initial containing block (viewport), as one would

Re: [css-d] teaching float v. absolute positioning

2010-03-30 Thread Tim Climis
On Tuesday, March 30, 2010 7:27:36 am CEO, Raynham Villas wrote: Alan Gresley wrote: So absolutely positioned elements are offset (left, right, top and bottom) from this initial containing block (viewport) unless it has an ancestor with position relative, absolute or fixed [1]. If it

Re: [css-d] teaching float v. absolute positioning

2010-03-30 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Tim Climis wrote: Mmm. I believe he meant they to refer back to the elements. Well, that's certainly one possible interpretation : perhaps Alan will clarify. ** Phil. __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org]

[css-d] teaching float v. absolute positioning

2010-03-29 Thread Jared Stein
Hey all, I teach web design and dev courses at the college level and often steer students away from absolute positioning as a first-choice CSS layout solution in favor of float. I've read John Faulds' post on the pitfalls of abs pos here http://csscreator.com/node/11291 and use this as a