absolute-positioning

Negative Absolute Positioning, Removing Scrollbar

Hey, I am working on this site: http://waterwing.waterwing.ca/ The top right corner animation is perfect except for that it creates a horizontal scrollbar with the way it's positioned. It's absolutely positioned -120px top and right. I'm just wondering how I can make it so it won't extend the body and will just hide itself once it hit...

CSS: have a div after an absolute positioned div

Hey, I was wondering how to do this, my current mark up is as follows: <div id="playArea" style="position: relative;"> <div id="widget1" class="widget" style="position: absolute; left: 295px; top: -1px; width: 313px; height: 269px;">Hello</div> <div id="widget2" class="widget" style="position: absolute; left: 63px; top: 35px; w...

position:relative and overflow:auto problem but cannot use position:relative on containing element !! :-(

Hello I have a page where I need to use overflow:auto inside html and body tags because I have a position : fixed element, for which I have to use position : absolute in IE (and thus, overflow:auto to get rid of the IE bug). This bit is sorted. But now my problem is I have other position: relative elements on my page. And the moment ...

CSS: Alternative method to positon absolute

Hi Guys, I have the following mark up: <div id="playArea" style="position: relative;"> <div style="position: absolute; left: 295px; top: -1px; width: 313px; height: 269px;">Hello</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 63px; top: 35px; width: 80px; height: 42px;">World</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 534px; ...

Giving height to absolutely positioned DIVs in IE6

It's almost 2010 and I'm still dealing with IE6 bugs. sigh. So, here's a new one (to me) that I'm having trouble finding a answer to via google. I'm creating a DIV with an inner-shadow. The div needs to be flexible in width and height. To accomplish this, I'm giving the DIV a background image of the inner-shadow. I then add 3 additiona...

Elements disappearing on IE7 window resize

I am coding this web page. http://www.nomizine.com/misc/tbs/default.html It renders well everywhere except for IE7. When I resize the browser window, top navigation, the compass on the left and subscribe block on the right disappears. Any idea how to fix it? BTW, I have already tried HasLayout tricks like zoom:1, clear:both etc but not...

Positioning jQuery dialog

I want to position my jQuery dialog x-pixels away from the right border of the browser. Is this anyhow possible? http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/ The position option doesn't seem to have that kind of setup, but is there any other way to do it? ...

Popup Div Shifted Up in IE6

My CSS and page works in the latest FireFox, Safari, and Chrome, IE7, IE8, but not IE6. Please help! I have a popup that displays directly above the image (like I want) in every major browser except IE6. At my URL, http://www.cookware-reviews.net/juicers/black-and-decker/, I have a bunch of DIVs inside one another that make up my 'popu...

CSS - Absolute positioning or float?

I've got a basic layout where the body div is set to a specific width. And with margins left and right are set to auto. Resulting in the div being centered. Now, when it now comes to positioning all sub elements within this div, is it best to use absolute positioning or fixed coordinates? These sub elements are basically columns of tex...

How to ignore Onmouseover in javascript on div with absolute position

Hi, I have the following code: <body> <div id="div1" style="position: absolute;"></div> <div id="div2" onmouseover="not handling"></div> </body> div1 covers div2. I need to handle onmouseover on div2. I assume that div1 handles the onmouseover event and postpone it to the body (because the body is a parent element). I cannot chang...

Fixed height and 100% height in container DIV

Hi, I'm trying to get a div to extend to 100% height with the bottom of the scroll bar still visible, when also contained with a fixed height div. Can someone please help me out :) When using the bellow layout, the vertical scroll bar at the bottom of .div2 falls off the height of the viewpoint, i'm guessing because .div1 is 200px high...

CSS to create a group of text with an even left edge with auto width

I'm trying to create a layout something like this (you'll need to use your imagination): A B B B A is a piece of text, B is a piece of text whose left edge I would like to line up evenly with itself. To further complicate matters, B is by default hidden, and should not be taken into account in setting up the page flow, but inst...

Absolutely positioned div on right causing scrollbar when the left doesn't

I'm trying to "flank" a centered div with some design elements that are absolutely positioned outside the main div's width. I'm getting a scroll bar due to the element on the right, but not the element on the left (IE6/7/8, Chrome, Firefox). How can I get rid of that horizontal scrollbar? <html> <head> <style type="text/css"> html, ...

CSS: positioning absolute divs in a relative div container (IE bug)

Hi guys, i have the following markup (i have stripped out the content by the way) <div id="playArea" style="position: relative"> <div class="widget" id="widget2" style="position: absolute;width:153px;top:282px;left:243px;" ></div> <div class="widget" id="widget8" style="position: absolute;width:278px;top:-2px;left:44...

fully absolute positioned layout shows up blank

I'm working on a website and have been using absolute positioning, since the viewport size will always be fixed (offline iphone webapp). Halfway through I realized that I wasn't using a proper doctype declaration and such. When I added those and refreshed in a browser, the content completely vanished. A code sample is below. With no doc...

Absolute element inheriting relative parent div's width

I am trying to position a gradient over an inline / inline-block anchor link, and have that gradient inherit the width of that parent anchor. The problem is that the span either inherits the entire width of the anchor's parent, or just the width of the &nbsp;. I am unable to get the span element to properly inherit the width while mainta...

Trouble with z-index in ie6 and 7

On this page http://equals.lsri.nottingham.ac.uk/puzzle/create, if you type something into an input and then click save a custom dialog will pop up. But even though the dialog's z-index, and that of its container, are higher than that of the equation editor, the editor still overlaps the dialog in ie6 and 7. Anyone got any idea why? ...

Making iframe's CSS completely independent from parent frame

context: I am loading an S6 slideshow from my web page inside an iframe loaded in a fancybox. The code in my parent web page is <a id='presentation' href='/my/server/my-big-presentation?iframe'> Launch presentation </a> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { $("a#presentation").fancybox(); }); </script> ...

CSS positioning breaks in Safari

Hi all, i have a website in which i am trying to position (using CSS) a certain on the page. the is absolutely positioned and is located inside a relatively positioned paernt . on firefox and even IE it looks ok but on Safari, things get messy and it shows 5 pixels lower than it should. i have tried to figure out for days now what is w...

jquery won't fade text if positioned: absolute;

I have LI that I want to fade out and back in. Within the list item I have some text. This text is positioned absolutely within the LI. The catch is that in IE8 (IE6 and 7 seem fine) I can get everything to fade except the text: http://jsbin.com/esamu/13 If I remove the absolute positioning on the text element (in this case, a P), IE8...