On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 8:36 AM, James Hopkins <james@idreamincode.co.uk> wrote: > > Has there been talk of a resolution for this issue? What with the arrival of > IE8 (which supports all these values), there's currently a lot of talk > around about authors realistically being able to use these values for their > layouts. However, I do believe without clarification this issue is going to > limit the use of the 'table-*' values somewhat. FYI, FF3, Opera and Safari > all ignore 'position:relative' in the aforementioned context. > That is not true. While top and left values may not apply, we can see that the browser does handle positioned td elements differently. <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>Untitled</title> </head> <body> <h1>click to see offsetParent</h1> <table border='1'> <tr><td><div style="position:relative" onclick="alert(this.offsetParent)">not positioned td</div></td></tr> </table> <hr> <table border='1'> <tr><td style="position:relative"> <div style="position:relative" onclick="alert(this.offsetParent)">positioned td</div> </td></tr> </table> </body> </html> Result: FF3, Opera 9.6: BODY TD Safari 3: BODY BODY GarrettReceived on Thursday, 27 November 2008 23:47:33 UTC
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