[TriLUG] CSS question

[Mitchell Amiano]

If by "position: nothing" you mean absence of the property, the formatting will be "static", which is not the same as relative, so it makes sense that it would differ.
"top" and "left" properties are ignored in static positioning. 

(If by "position: nothing" you mean the literal string, that is not valid CSS but it should revert to "static" in that case too.)

Relative positioning offsets elements out of the position they would have been at in the normal flow.  The layout flow can be affected by whether the element is being treated as a block, an inline-block, or an inline-element, whether line-breaking spaces are present, and whether you're using a browser that has serious layout bugs like IE6 or IE7 (see <http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer.html> for examples.)

On Jan 30, 2012, at 11:12 PM, Brian McCullough wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 07:45:48AM -0500, Glenn Hennessee wrote:
>> You may find the Web Developer tool for Firefox from
>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-developer/ useful
>> here. One of the features is to show the CSS that a particular item on
>> a page has assigned to it. 
> 
> Yes, I use Firebug a lot, and also the Web Developer tools quite a bit.
> 
> 
> 
>> After installing and restarting Firefox you
>> will have a new toolbar with a CSS entry. Under that is the View Style
>> Information. Select it and then click on your menu item that works and
>> a window at the bottom of the screen will open showing all the css
>> applying to it. Click on a menu item that doesn't work and view the
>> css for it. My guess you're going to find them different.
> 
> Unfortunately, the CSS for every item was identical.
> 
> However, I finally found that there was a big difference between "position: nothing" and "position: relative," which is what the code had originally.
> 
> It also made a big difference at what nesting level that I moved the "position: relative" to.  When I moved it down one level from where I found it originally, things suddenly got much better.
> 
> 
> Brian
> 
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