You could try using absolute positioning, making it relative to the button's containing element. I'm guessing that would allow you to position it better with the button as you desire.
Sent from iOS 5 On Jan 7, 2012, at 10:47 AM, "G.Sørtun" <gunla...@c2i.net> wrote: > On 07.01.2012 15:12, Laura Valentino wrote: >> I'm trying to position a popup window over a button. I've succeeded in >> doing that by using position: relative and applying a negative top value. >> The problem is that it creates a space below the button (I assume the same >> size as the window) and pushes the footer down below that. What's going >> on?? >> >> http://vidmot.com/popupwindow/ > > Relative positioning means the space occupied by the element, is taken up in > the original - non-offset - position. > > One solution is to add ' margin-bottom: -460px;' to <div id='PopUp' - (height > + padding + border-width), so it doesn't take up any space in original > position. > > regards > Georg > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@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/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@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/
