Re: [css-d] Trouble with positioning - not understanding this

2007-04-29 Thread Lea de Groot
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:39:16 -0600, Skip Knox wrote: > Specifically, why in order for the absolute positioning to work > properly, the wrapper div has to have a relative position. (I haven't looked at the original reference, so this is a general explanation, but it should apply to this instance)

Re: [css-d] Trouble with positioning - not understanding this

2007-04-29 Thread Skip Knox
>That works! And kind of makes sense to me. Would Robert Lane or someone else please explain why it makes sense? Specifically, why in order for the absolute positioning to work properly, the wrapper div has to have a relative position. This struggling Jedi is lost on Dagobah on this one. Skip K

Re: [css-d] Trouble with positioning - not understanding this

2007-04-29 Thread Robert Lane
That works! And kind of makes sense to me. Maybe I will get this after all. Thanks! :-) On 4/29/2007 4:52:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Make it absolutely postitioned within the footer div. To do this you must > > define the footer div as position:relative.

Re: [css-d] Trouble with positioning - not understanding this

2007-04-29 Thread ross
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Re: [css-d] Trouble with positioning - not understanding this

2007-04-29 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 30/04/07, Robert Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What would be the right way to get this bugger down to the bottom left > of the footer? > > Here is the detail from the page: > > #footer_tag { position: relative; bottom: 2px; } > p.copy { padding: 6px ; font-size: 0.7em; > text-align: left;

Re: [css-d] Trouble with positioning - not understanding this

2007-04-29 Thread Robyn M. Smith
I'm no css guru, but I think I'd give your nested footer_tag div a top margin. Robert Lane wrote: > I am struggling with some positioning. Basically, I have a div at the > bottom of a page that is defined to have a height of 143px. > It has a background image of that size. > > I then have some

[css-d] Trouble with positioning - not understanding this

2007-04-29 Thread Robert Lane
I am struggling with some positioning. Basically, I have a div at the bottom of a page that is defined to have a height of 143px. It has a background image of that size. I then have some text that I want centered and positioned near the top of the div. I put that in a tag with a class="addr"