On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:10 AM, <bruce.som...@web.de> wrote: > On the page at http://www.maireadnesbitt.com/index_next_tt.html I have a > group of absolutely positioned thumbnails. > > I expected them to appear within the containing block called left_third. > Instead they appear to be positioned on the page. Is that a question of some > attribute that I need to specify for left_third? > > Thanks for any assistance. > > Bruce
Just add "position: relative" to the styles for #left-third and you're good to go. Absolutely positioned blocks set their position relative to the next ancestor container *that is also positioned*. Right now, none of the ancestors are, so they are positioning relative to the <body> tag. Best, Tim -- tim.arn...@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
