Re: RES: div with absolute positioning.

edson rufino de souza wrote:
> iīve 
> been analysing many web sites with wcag compliance, iīve been noted that 
> divīs with absolute positioning arenīt used.  whatīs the reason for this?

I don't think there is a strict accessibility rule not to use absolute 
positioned divs, but to accommodate varying font and window sizes it is 
often easier to use floats for layout.

For example, a floated navigation bar will push down the footer of a 
page with little content. However, an absolutely positioned navigation 
bar will overlap with the footer if the content is not as long. (This 
example assumes a 2 or 3 column layout with a 100% wide footer.)

Kind regards,

-Alastair

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Received on Monday, 7 February 2005 09:37:43 UTC