- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:40:21 -0400
- To: Thomas Davie <tom.davie@gmail.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Thomas Davie wrote: > Thanks, okay, I don't yet fully understand what's going on here then. I > have an example which I expect to produce a table using divs (yes, I > know, this is as bad as producing divs using tables, but it's a good > example of trying to achieve a certain layout and apparently being > stymied by css: Is there a reason to not be using the table-* display types here? > I had assumed previously that absolute positioning was positioning > elements relative to the top-left of the document window They're not. But they _are_ taken out of flow. > causing the > absolutely positioned elements to not be part of their parent div, and > hence the relatively positioned ones to have a height of 0. Which gives that result. -Boris
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