Peter,
It a
technique that I use quite often, and is very useful for certain situations.
Douglas
Bowman explained it in depth in one of his articles:
Regards,
David McDonald
Web Designer
http://www.davidmcdonald.org
Southbank,
Melbourne
Australia
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Subject: [WSG] newbie discovers absolute positioningOpinions welcome:I'm working on a new job and looking at code on various sites I recently discovered the joys of creating a container that is centred position:relative with margin: 0 auto; in the browser window, and then setting divs within it that are position:absolute ,using top , left, width and height pixel settings, to the container. So far (up to the coloured boxes stage of the proceedings - thanks Russ!) everything seems to be working beautifully.Is it my imagination or is this method so much easier to work with than fiddling about with floats? I was shocked to see my layout work in all the test browsers, first time.Peter --
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