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The issue of positioning isn' t particularly difficult, I trust, but it is a bit tricky. I hope this irons out the issue of the different kinds of positioning available in CSS2. Below we' ll look at how to put these into practice.

Positioning enables very sophisticated page layout, but as with any powerful technology, it is complicated at times.

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Will CSS replace Tables?

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Will CSS replace Tables?

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Actually tables replaced CSS. But more and more developers are returning to CSS

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think of a layer (or <div>) as a single table cell that might help

.alpha {
width: 200px;
background-color: #000000;
border: solid 1px #c0c0c0;
}

<div class=" alpha" >
<p>Hello!</p>
</div>

<table width=" 200"  bgcolor=" #000000"  border=" 1"  border-color=" #c0c0c0" >
<tr>
<td>
<p>Hello!</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

.alpha {
position: absolute;
left: 0px;
top: 0px;width: 200px;
background-color: #000000;
border: solid 1px #c0c0c0;
}

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What I meant was... put this in your CSS:

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Tables were never intended to be used for layout... they just happen to work well and are easy to use so developers started doing it that way.

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Be very careful using CSS positioning for layout because browser support for this feature stinks

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That' s why tables have become the defacto layout technique....

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Of those, I wonder how many are fully aware of the trend to move to css and eventually away from tables for positioning.

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... automatically size the table so that you do not end up with side to side scroll bars.

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if you are using css' s and use the absolute function let' s say and the browswer window is not maximized or the person' s monitor is smaller than normal will the content resize automatically so that the content will fit on the screen and not cause side to side scroll bars.

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It' s not like there' s a title wave comming

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ORIGINAL: briesmith

Layout, tables, positioning is all well and good but what about the basics?

If all the spelling mistakes in the world were laid end to end we still wouldn' t have laid (" lain" would be OK here as well but is a bit old fashioned) the problem to rest. It would still be very confusing for anybody called Layed.

" Master, has it layed there for years?" " No pupil Layed, it was laid some time ago and has lain there ever since." " Will we let it lay Master?" " No, we will let it lie."

The use of the verb " to lay" is one of the really tricky bits of irregular English so apologies to any posters whose first language isn' t English.

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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

(in reply to briesmith)