On Oct 5, 2005, at 3:06 AM, Donna Maurer wrote:
The challenge was:
* three columns of content
* no guarantee which would be longer
* vertical lines between them
* a footer that spanned the full width of the screen
As part of the decision, he was discussing whether he would use
absolute positioning
or floats for the columns. I remember him saying that he couldn't
use absolute
positioning because he wouldn't know which column was longest.
...
I understand this is hard because you don't know which column to
use as a reference for the footer positioning. But couldn't you
wrap the three columns in an relatively positioned div and position
the footer relative the the whole thing?
The problem is that absolutely positioned elements are removed from
the flow. They "take up no space" as far as the rest of the page is
concerned, and so that relatively positioned wrapper div you invoke
would only be as tall as the tallest non-absolutely-positioned
element it contains. Then your footer would be positioned at the
bottom of that, with the absolutely positioned elements flowing over
(or under) it.
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