Re: Absolute positioning - a done deal?

Christopher <[email protected]> Mon, 24 Apr 2006 06:58:47 -0700
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.dom.wdf
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Hello again,

On 4/23/06, Jonathan Berry <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, guys. But I just tried it and it didn't work. Let me show you some
> sample code that illustrates my problem. The ads are loading in and bringing
> a series of divs with them. Maybe you could have a look at my code and see
> what I am trying to do?
>

<snip>

> document.write('<style
> type="text/css">.floatright{float:right;position:static;}.reg{float:right;position:static;}</style>');

<snip>

I'm not completely sure it's relevant, but the style declarations
above contain contradictory property assignments--'float:right' will
take an element out of the flow, but 'position:static' should put it
back in.

I'm also not sure how a browser _should_ interpret such a pair of
properties applied to the same element, but a quick test in Firefox
and Safari seems to show that the position declaration is ignored and
the element behaves as though it had only been floated:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml;
charset=utf-8" />
<title>Position Test</title>
<body>
<div style="float:right;position:static;background:#f90;clear:both;">
	<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.</p>
</div>
<div style="float:right;background:#f60;clear:both;">
	<p>Sed est. Sed eu sapien.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>


-Christopher


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