Absolute Positioning

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Building a site that works across browsers

The foregoing discussion probably left you feeling a little frustrated and disheartened. Designing a web page that displays its elements well across all browsers is not as easy as it seems. It appears that one must compromise and design for a single web browser or, at best, a chosen few. However, your awareness of the [...]

Horizontal and vertical offsets

The first aspect that must hold our attention is the concept of offset. When content fills a web browser, some amount overflows the edges of the browser window. It is important to know by how many pixels the content is offset from the browser window.

Client-side and server-side programming

Client-side or server-side programming is another aspect of web design that has an impact on the way pages display on the screen of the end user. Client-side scripting refers to a computer program executed on the client side by the user’s web browser. This program becomes significant when the web-page code contains DHTML, scripting languages, [...]

Understanding and determining positions

Many web designers are confused about the different positioning schemes that are available. An understanding of positioning schemes must begin with the concept of normal flow. This is the default behavior of the web browser. Each block-level element is stacked one after another with inline elements flowing into the available space on the page. The [...]

Aligning cell contents absolutely

In the preceding section, we had a brief look at the options available with the designer to create tabled and tableless columnar layouts. You could say that we had a very high-level view of how the page should be laid out. However, the real core of web design lies in the placement of elements within [...]