> It not that the spec disallowed it The spec did explicitly disallow it, see point number 2: http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-CSS2-20090423/visuren.html#dis-pos-flo
> Absolutely positioned boxes are taken out of the normal flow The phrase "taken out of the flow" is used a bit loosely in the spec. Both absolutely positioned and floated elements are out of the flow, the difference being that floated elements are still "visible" to inline boxes. I'm not sure why the spec disallowed combining absolute positioning with floating, because it seems to be the only way an element could be stretched to the width or height of its auto-height containing element while being aligned to the left or right. http://roughtech.com/t/posit.html example 5 and 6. ~Chetan ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
