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RickP Posts: 693 Joined: 11/13/2004 From: Kent, U.K. Status: offline	another absolute positioning question... - 10/29/2005 9:54:47 I am working on a banner template and am using CSS to position 'pop-up' images when links are hovered over. My page layout is a fixed width, when the layout is left aligned getting the images to the correct position is no problem, but... I want to center the layout. Of course once I do this then the positioning of the pop-up images becomes entirely unpredictable... So, is it possible to set a css positioning rule to take its measurement from say the top left side of a containing table/div/whatever instead of from the top left corner of the screen? Does that make sense? - if needs be I can upload the page but I trust you get what I'm asking... _____________________________ Regards, Rick On-The-Web-Now!


Tailslide Posts: 6370 Joined: 5/10/2005 From: Out here on the raggedy edge Status: offline	RE: another absolute positioning question... - 10/29/2005 10:20:33 The element that you are positioning absolutely will take it's references from the <div> that contains it (although IE 5 sometimes mucks this up). _____________________________ Little Blue Plane Web Design \| Land Rover project (in reply to RickP)


RickP Posts: 693 Joined: 11/13/2004 From: Kent, U.K. Status: offline	RE: another absolute positioning question... - 10/29/2005 12:57:09 Ah yes, but on this occassion the image is being positioned by hovering on the a:link - I don't want it to take reference from the anchor text as there are various links all in different positions and besides, if someone resized the text that would scupper it anyway. _____________________________ Regards, Rick On-The-Web-Now! (in reply to Tailslide)


Tailslide Posts: 6370 Joined: 5/10/2005 From: Out here on the raggedy edge Status: offline	RE: another absolute positioning question... - 10/29/2005 13:29:10 When I've seen this done (Eric Meyer) he gave every popup a position in relation to the containing div - and yes, if you resize it the way he did it, it breaks - but you could in theory position it so it doesn't. _____________________________ Little Blue Plane Web Design \| Land Rover project (in reply to RickP)


RickP Posts: 693 Joined: 11/13/2004 From: Kent, U.K. Status: offline	RE: another absolute positioning question... - 10/29/2005 14:51:33 Indeed - that is the site I went to when looking for help - help it did. This is my effort so far (please ignore the aesthetics at this stage!). But now I just need to figure out how to make it work as a centred layout (!?) Ooh, Ooh, I just thought of one simple solution... it works but causes a bit of a constraint on the images used/the layout, but... here it is - I simply set the now relative position to 50% - ignore the presently squished up images but this is at least one way EDIT AGAIN! - Ah, just tried it on IE5 and it's disastrous < Message edited by RickP -- 10/29/2005 15:22:08 > _____________________________ Regards, Rick On-The-Web-Now! (in reply to Tailslide)