Thanks - I'll take a proper read through that later but on first glance I'm not sure if this would cover it. The principle of ordered floats makes sense but this doesn't counter having a top navigation bar which I need to position after the main content. The kind of thing I need to do is:
HEADER LEFT NAVIGATION MAIN CONTENT FOOTER But in the source code it needs to be more like: <div id="maincontent">Main page content</div> <div id="leftnavigation">Left Nav</div> <div id="header">header content here</div> <div id="footer">Footer</div> I think that seems a sensible way of approaching it. I'd go for floating the left navigation and main content left and right and then use a clear:both on the footer. The method I've seen used applies top padding to the left navigation and main content (or a div wrapping these) to force the body content down by said amount of pixels. The header then has an absolute position rather than relative. Tim On 5 Oct 2006, at 16:11, Brett Derry wrote: > Hi Tim, > > Ordered floats is the way forward. > > http://www.positioniseverything.net/ordered-floats.html > > HTH, > Brett > > ****** > >> Hi All. > >> I'm soon going to be working on a site for a client who has asked for > the main body content of the code to be above the navigation in the > source >> for SEO / Accessibility reasons. This makes sense but wanted to >> get an > idea of which methods people use for this. > >> The way I've seen this done before is too apply padding to the main > content div which forces the main content down the page. The top > navigation > can then be given an absolute position to 'layer' over > the > space created by the padding. Does anyone use any other methods or is > this the >> excepted way of doing this? > >> It would be simple if all the divs could be absolute positioned >> but as > there are varying page lengths across the site I don't think this > would > be an >> option. > >> Thanks in advance for any help. > >> Tim > > > > > > > The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are confidential to > the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient > please do not use or publish its contents, contact Midlands Co- > operative Society Ltd. immediately on +44 (0) 1543 414140 and > delete it. > > Although this e-mail and any attachments are believed to be free > from any virus or other defect it is the responsibility of the > recipient to ensure that they are virus free. > > > > This message has been scanned for viruses by BlackSpider > MailControl - www.blackspider.com ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
