On Friday 02 February 2007 05:40, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > I have the following problem which seems to be because of my lack of > > knowledge of some basic css. I hope someone can help explaining this > > to me. > > > > http://www.budiardja.org/tmp/css_test.html > > Absolute positioned elements have no effect on their containers. > Absolute positioned elements are "taken out of the flow" - browsers > treat them as if they exist in another dimension (which in fact they do).
Thanks, that explains it. Also thank you for the reference on the w3.org website. RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Dept. Physics and Astronomy University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- 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/