Tangled web



Monday, March 29, 2004

notes on positioning
 
Note on positioning with CSS: Sometimes absolutely positioned text slides around when the window is smaller or large, other times it stays put in relation to the rest of the page. Why? The coding looked the same to me in various examplesI checked. The answer comes from Karen Plummer an instructor at HWG-IWA web schools.

The sliding text problem does have to do with absolute positioning: your overlapping text is set to an absolute bottom position so whenever the page is resized it is going to place the overlapping text so many px away from the BOTTOM of the browser window which means it will slide upwards on very small windows! Hope this answers the question.