Absolute Positioning

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About this Website from a book “Absolute Positioning”

This section briefly describes the contents of the individual chapters in this website book. Part I: Discovering positioning Chapter 1: Deep positioning The Web is an application that uses the infrastructure of the Internet to display text, images, video, and audio. Tim Berners-Lee conceived it in 1989 for a specific purpose. It has grown to [...]

The story of the Web

The world has come a long way from CERN. The Web as Tim Berners-Lee conceived it is hardly recognizable in its reach today. It is no longer a minor network of communication among scientific communities located in a single building or a few buildings across the square. It is a complex, international, cross-platform, cross-language, cross-cultural [...]

User environments

The window in which the user explores your web page is the browser (technically called a user device). A browser is a generic name for a computer program that creates a window or interface through which users view websites on their computers. Most computers come with preinstalled browsers and are often identified by the name [...]

Internet Explorer

Until January 2009, the various Internet Explorers have been the most popular browsers. IE comes installed with the Windows operating system. Seventy percent of all users used IE 6 in 2005, according to the statistics available on the W3schools website. The popularity for IE appears to be waning, and in 2006, 60% used Internet Explorer 6. [...]

Netscape Navigator

This browser was a competitor to Internet Explorer and one of the first pioneers in this field. America Online purchased Netscape Navigator, but AOL chose to use IE instead. However, Navigator is still used by nostalgic web surfers. Its use as a browser was less than 1% in 2006. AOL stopped its support of Netscape [...]

Absolute positioning in CSS

Absolute positioning is one of the more powerful features of CSS and can be used to an advantage by an experienced web designer. Absolute positioning is specified by giving values for the top, bottom, left, and right properties. These properties will specify the distance from corresponding edge of the page or its parent element. This [...]

Font size

While the controversy on shape of the font rages, no one disputes about size. Anything less than 10pt is not acceptable to both designers and readers. The length of the line should also not be more than 10 to 12 words long or readers will find themselves in difficulties. If the font is too small, [...]

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 [...]