RE: Positioned elements

Yes, this is how it is supposed to work. "position:relative" applies to all elements so it should have the effect you are after. I didn't know this doesn't work in FF. I am sure it does in Gran Paradiso.

BTW, you should be looking at CSS 2.1 not 2: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/

From: Eugen.Konkov@aldec.com [mailto:Eugen.Konkov@aldec.com]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 12:58 AM
To: Alex Mogilevsky
Cc: www-style@w3.org
Subject: Re: Positioned elements

Yes, It is I am looking for
<table border=1><tr>
  <td>HELLO</td><td>HELLO</td>
  </tr>
<tr>
  <td>HELLO</td><td style="position: relative;">HELLO<select
style="position: absolute; left:0px; top:0px; background:
red;"></select></td>
  </tr>
</table>

I have re-read CSS2 specification and find out that:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#relative-positioning
Relatively positioned boxes keep their normal flow size, including line
breaks and the space originally reserved for them. A relatively positioned
box establishes a new a new containing block for normal flow children and
positioned descendants.

9.8.4 Absolute positioning
.........
The following example shows an absolutely positioned box that is a child of
a relatively positioned box. Although the parent outer box is not actually
offset, setting its 'position' property to 'relative' means that its box may
serve as the containing block for positioned descendants. Since the outer
box is an inline box that is split across several lines, the first inline
box's top and left edges (depicted by thick dashed lines in the illustration
below) serve as references for 'top' and 'left' offsets.

#outer {
  position: relative;
  color: red
}
#inner {
  position: absolute;
  top: 200px; left: -100px;
  height: 130px; width: 130px;
  color: blue;
}

I have test this in other browser (IE) than mine (FF) and IE looks to work
right


Thank you very much for help

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mikko Rantalainen" <mikko.rantalainen@peda.net<mailto:mikko.rantalainen@peda.net>>
To: <www-style@w3.org<mailto:www-style@w3.org>>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: Positioned elements
----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Mogilevsky<mailto:alexmog@exchange.microsoft.com>
To: Eugen.Konkov@aldec.com<mailto:Eugen.Konkov@aldec.com>
Cc: www-style@w3.org<mailto:www-style@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 12:40 PM
Subject: RE: Positioned elements

As Mikko points you can in fact make any element relative (with no offset) which doesn't change its position but makes it a positioning parent. I am sure there are scenarios where it is not an option but so far I have not seen one that would be important enough to add complexity of another positioning option...

(who am I to say, now that i've written a module for grid positioning. but that is really addressing scenarios which are not possible with existing properties)...
________________________________
From: Eugen.Konkov@aldec.com [Eugen.Konkov@aldec.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:23 PM
To: Alex Mogilevsky
Subject: Re: Positioned elements
It will possible to position element relative to its parent (see image #1), not 'relative' where positioning relative to previous sibling (see image #2) and not 'absolute' where positioning is relative to parent element with 'absolute positioning' (see image #3)
----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Mogilevsky<mailto:alexmog@exchange.microsoft.com>
To: Eugen.Konkov@aldec.com<mailto:Eugen.Konkov@aldec.com> ; www-style@w3.org<mailto:www-style@w3.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:33 PM
Subject: RE: Positioned elements

Would it achieve something that is not possible today?

From: www-style-request@w3.org<mailto:www-style-request@w3.org> [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Eugen.Konkov@aldec.com<mailto:Eugen.Konkov@aldec.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 1:54 AM
To: www-style@w3.org<mailto:www-style@w3.org>
Subject: Positioned elements

Is you plan to add ability to position element relatively to its parent
NOT to its position in normal flow (relative)
NOT to its containing block (absolute)

<div style="position: absolute; left: 50px; top: 150px; border: 1px solid red;">
TESTCASE #2
<table border=1><tr>
  <td>HELLO</td><td><div style="position: absolute; left:40px; top:12px; background: red;">aa</div></td>
  </tr>
<tr>
  <td>HELLO</td><td>HELLO<select style="position: parent; left:0px; top:0px; background: blue;"></select></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</div>

So its look like this:
[cid:image001.png@01C7FC47.1A9F3EF0]

And NOT:
[cid:image002.png@01C7FC47.1A9F3EF0]
like in 'relative' positioning

And NOT:
[cid:image003.png@01C7FC47.1A9F3EF0]
like in 'absolute' positioning



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