Critique request: a second site I'm putting together

Thanks to you all for the comments. I can't get my head around a couple
things (among others). First what does relative positioning accomplish?
I've read the Wc3 bit on it and a couple others, but still. (der...)

Second, how do I deal with the image on my page when the size is brought
up or down by the user? Of course its size doesn't change, and the
overflow: hidden tag doesn't hide. What do I do?

Or do I have the wrong paradigm?

Thanks,

Steve

Steve Gibons wrote:

Thanks to you all for the comments. I can't get my head around a couple
things (among others). First what does relative positioning accomplish?
I've read the Wc3 bit on it and a couple others, but still. (der...)

Your layout does not need any of the positioning you've employed. Take a

look at <http://www.sohnen-moe.com/test/test.html>. It has a single
float:left and no positioning.

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Jim Moe wrote:

Steve Gibons wrote:
[...] First what does relative positioning accomplish?

Your layout does not need any of the positioning you've employed. Take a
look at <http://www.sohnen-moe.com/test/test.html>. It has a single
float:left and no positioning.

Jim, Thank you tons! This was just what I needed to understand.
Do I understand this correctly?

..textbox h2 refers to <h2> within .textbox, and
..textbox p refers to elements in <p>

..textbox {
border: 1px solid black; /* etc */
}

..textbox h2 {
text-align: left; font-size: 150%; font-weight: bold;
}

..textbox p { text-indent: .6em; margin: 0; }

So if I had, say,

..blahbox
something: value; /* etc */
}
..blahbox p { text-indent: 1em; margin: .2em;}

the <p>'s in .blahbox would be different than those in .textbox?

Hopefully,

Steve

Steve Gibons wrote:

Jim, Thank you tons! This was just what I needed to understand.
Do I understand this correctly?
.textbox h2 refers to <h2> within .textbox, and
.textbox p refers to elements in <p

Yes. It is the Cascading part of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).

So if I had, say,
.blahbox p { text-indent: 1em; margin: .2em;}
the <p>'s in .blahbox would be different than those in .textbox?

Yes, for those properties you specify. Otherwise it inherits whatever

styles are defined in the parent which could be the default styles.

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Jim Moe wrote:

Steve Gibons wrote:
Jim, Thank you tons! This was just what I needed to understand.
Do I understand this correctly?

[..]

Yes. It is the Cascading part of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).
So if I had, say,
[...]

Yes, for those properties you specify. Otherwise it inherits whatever
styles are defined in the parent which could be the default styles.

Jim, Thanks again, my learning just took a nice leap ahead.

steve

Steve Gibons wrote:

Jim, Thanks again, my learning just took a nice leap ahead.

:-)

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