On 16/12/2010 6:28 PM, Chetan Crasta wrote:
@Thierry: Happy to help.
the element is taken out of flow, thus float is rendered impotent
@Barney: It doesn't necessarily follow that because the element is out
of the flow, float cannot work. If the spec hadn't disallowed it, it
would be
Chetan, Philippe:
http://barneycarroll.com/floatAndPos.html
Assigned float properties are computed, they just don't take effect.
Regards,
Barney Carroll
barney.carr...@gmail.com
07594 506 381
On 16 December 2010 10:12, Alan Gresley a...@css-class.com wrote:
On 16/12/2010 6:28 PM, Chetan
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
http://barneycarroll.com/floatAndPos.html
Assigned float properties are computed, they just don't take effect.
Firebug shows computed value of float as none on an element with
position:absolute and float:left or float:right
~Chetan
On 16/12/2010 9:39 PM, Chetan Crasta wrote:
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
Thank you, I was looking for that.
Absolutely positioned boxes are taken out of the
On Dec 16, 2010, at 7:39 PM, Chetan Crasta wrote:
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
Better to quote the latest text:
Hi Chetan,
I thought this article could be of interest to this list:
http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/12/14/the-css-position-property/
That's a nice informative summary of positioning. It would also be
worthwhile mentioning that absolutely and fixed positioned inline
elements can be
I thought this article could be of interest to this list:
http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/12/14/the-css-position-property/
I believe the article says that already.
Check the first bullet point in the Things to remember about
position:absolute. It says:
For *any* 'absolute' or 'fixed'
Chetan, it's more of a case — as the article clearly explains — that the
element is taken out of flow, thus float is rendered impotent.
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On 15 Dec 2010, at 18:09, Chetan Crasta chetancra...@gmail.com wrote:
I thought this article could be of interest to this list:
I thought this article could be of interest to this list:
http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/12/14/the-css-position-
property/
I believe the article says that already.
Check the first bullet point in the Things to remember about
position:absolute. It says:
For *any* 'absolute' or
@Thierry: Happy to help.
the element is taken out of flow, thus float is rendered impotent
@Barney: It doesn't necessarily follow that because the element is out
of the flow, float cannot work. If the spec hadn't disallowed it, it
would be conceivable for position:absolute and float to be used
Sorry, here's the link: http://roughtech.com/t/posit.html
~C
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Chetan Crasta chetancra...@gmail.com wrote:
@Thierry: Happy to help.
the element is taken out of flow, thus float is rendered impotent
@Barney: It doesn't necessarily follow that because the
I thought this article could be of interest to this list:
http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/12/14/the-css-position-property/
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Regards,
Thierry
www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | @thierrykoblentz
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I thought this article could be of interest to this list:
http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/12/14/the-css-position-property/
That's a nice informative summary of positioning. It would also be
worthwhile mentioning that absolutely and fixed positioned inline
elements can be sized with width and
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