Re: DIV positioning

not exactly. in your example. div1 is taken out of the flow and
absolutely positioned 20px left and 30px top. div2 in normal flow would
be in the browser top left (because div1 is out of the flow), relative
positioning shifts div2 20px left of its natural position. what you end
up with is the 2 divs overlaid.

joe




Murray *TMM* wrote:

It will. Relative positioning is always relative to the code flow. If the
two divisions are always immediately contiguous in the code, then they will
always be positioned one above the other in the plane of the page.

In my example I changed both divs to relative positioning, no?

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"Joe {RoastHorse}" <joe (AT) roast-horse (DOT) commmmm> wrote

not exactly. in your example. div1 is taken out of the flow and
absolutely positioned 20px left and 30px top. div2 in normal flow would
be in the browser top left (because div1 is out of the flow), relative
positioning shifts div2 20px left of its natural position. what you end
up with is the 2 divs overlaid.

joe




Murray *TMM* wrote:

It will. Relative positioning is always relative to the code flow. If
the
two divisions are always immediately contiguous in the code, then they
will
always be positioned one above the other in the plane of the page.