I've just been going through what has been done at the Zen Garden and was wondering why the absolute positioning method is almost always used.
Numbers: 31, Hedges 35, Release One 93, South of the Border 95, Corporate Zenworks 100, 15 Petals all use this position: absolute method to place the navigation links on one side - number 100, 15 Petals, is covered in "More Eric Meyer on CSS". Douglas Bowman talks a little bit about designing in the Zen Garden (he did number 17, Golden Mean): http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2003/05/27/in_the_garden.html He writes here: "This can potentially eliminate the option of using float as a means to group content into side-by-side columns. Such is the case when applying style to the Zen Gardens markup. Using position:absolute for a few of the divs frees us up to layout the page with pieces of content in specific positions without relying on their order within the markup." But I don't see the float option as being eliminated in the Zen Garden. More that it is a less flexible way of laying out the page... OR, I don't know what I'm talking about. Still, there are about 200 designs up and I've only gone thruogh about ten of them so far. I'll keep looking - just thought it might be easier (lazier) to ask in the mailing list :) --- cj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/2/06, Christian Collins wrote: > > Does anyone know of a Zen Garden layout that > floats > > the "linkList" div to the left or right of the > main > > content? > > > > I've looked through 5 or 6 two-column layouts so > far > > and they all use the "position: absolute" method. > > > does it have to be zen garden layouts? if not, > there are some nice > two column layouts listed in the wiki, and i've > heard the three column > ones can usually be easily turned into two columns. > > http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=CssLayouts > __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- 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/
