According to my books position:relative is to give a point of reference to any
absolute positioned elements inside it. That's always been my understanding and
it's always worked.
"CSS The Missing Manual" says: Relative - A relatively placed element is placed
relative to its current position in the HTML flow. So for example, setting a
top value of 20px and a left value of 200px on a relatively positioned headline
moves the headline 20px down and 200px to the left from wherever it would
normally appear.
So if you've set a position say top and left the <div> will move, but
position:relative is not the reason, it's set for the benefit of other elements.
Regards,
Alan.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Pasotto
To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:08 PM
Subject: [css-d] relative positioning
Is my understanding correct that putting:
div#name1 { position: relative; }
in the css file should have absolutely no effect on <div id="name1">?
If that is correct, why then does IE6 move the div? Does it make a
difference that the block I'm dealing with is a fieldset?
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