Absolute Positioning

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Browsers! Browsers! Browsers!

The raison d’être of web design is the end users. After all, a designer created the web page so that the users could browse it, interact with it, and use it. If they are not comfortable with the web page or the page does not display accurately, it is logical that users find fault with [...]

Tables

Tables are one of the primary tools that are used by web designers to gain control over elements of a web page. They also offer visually interesting organization of text and graphics. They help the designer designate specific parts or columns and rows for menus, navigation bars, or for framing images or content. However, browser [...]

Style sheet and visual formatting models

The concept of the “visual formatting model” can be traced back to the intense need for ability to layout web pages in the way in which pages are laid out in printing. The model is extremely simple when compared to the complicated models of the printing world. Various CSS properties are used to control the [...]

When absolute positioning does not work!

Absolute positioning is an attractive concept. However there are instances when absolute positioning does not seem to work! In this chapter we shall briefly touch upon instances when the CSS positioning technique does not work. Internet Explorer 4.0 has problems with absolute positioning of elements. When an absolute position is applied to hyperlinks, the positioning [...]