- From: Stephanos Piperoglou <stephanos@internet.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 09:31:08 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Frank Boumphrey <bckman@ix.netcom.com>
- cc: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>, www-html@w3.org
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Frank Boumphrey wrote:
> Don't forget side notes which are the easiest of all to find and read.
>
> They would be quite easy to do if the absolute position was rendered in
> reference to its containing block (as required in CSS2(9.3.1 Choosing a
> positioning scheme: 'position' property)), unfortunatly communicator doesnt
> support the absolute position, and IE4 doesnt do it quite right.
Untrue - if you declare the containing block as relative and the
positioned one as absolute *then* it works. For an example see
http://www.webreference.com/html/
You can implement sidenotes using CSS-P right now, you just have to be
very very careful and do it in a very specific way.
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