absolute-positioning

position element on top of another

i am looking for a jquery plugin that will let me absolutely position one element on top of another. This plugin should understand scroll offsets, and borders. bonus points if it looks right on both ie and firefox. bonus point if it repositions itself on window resize. does something like this exist, or am i stuck rolling my own? ...

A problem with div positioning

Hello! A have something like that: It's OK but i want to add some Title block at the top of Content. So it can be look like that: I don't know what Title height will be, because there will be some dynamic content. How to solve this problem? ...

Why does absolute positionining within <button> works differently from <div>

I expect following code to put my span to the top-left corner of the button, but it doesn't. Why is that? <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head> <style type='text/css'> </style> </head> ...

margin issue on IE7 with jQuery hover effect on absolute position

Having the absolute position on .nav li p creates extra margin when hovering an image only on IE7, but without the absolute position, images flicker. Is there another option than the absolute positioning? This is what I have: $('ul.nav li').hover(function() { $(this).prepend('<p></p>') .find('p') .fadeIn('fast'); }...

how do I prevent other elements from being affected by overflow hidden?

I have a parent element that has dynamic text in it that needs to be confined into a certain area. I had users that where writing sentences without using spaces (example:yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy etc...) This was breaking the structure of my styled text area. #ProfileCommentBody{ width:500px; font-family:Arial, He...

Absolute positioning bug in IE8

Hello, Internet Explorer 7 & 8 (IE7 & IE) are not positioning drop down menu items properly using absolute positioning. FireFox, Chrome, and Safari all render the drop down menu item(s) positions properly. In IE7 & IE8, the the drop down menu items are offset to the right instead of dropping down directly under the parent item. The sit...

IE8 Standards mode: onclick handler on div does not fire

In my application I have a row of buttons (for BBcode) that is included in various places. Each button is an empty div with fixed dimensions, a background image and an onclick handler. This has worked very well in all browsers - so far. Now I have added one more instance of this row, but this time it is inside an absolutely positioned p...

set the absolute position of a view in Android

Is it possible to set the absolute position of a view in android? (I know that there is an AbsoluteLayout, but it's deprecated...) Lets say I have a screen 240x320px, and I want to put an ImageView which is 20x20px with its center at the position (100,100). What do I have to do? Thanks for the help, this is driving me crazy. ...

Why are the background images in my absolutely positioned div not displaying??

I can't figure out why my background images in my absolutely positioned divs aren't displaying. I'm using firefox, but also in Chrome. Pariticularly odd is that when viewing the page with the web developer toolbar's Edit CSS dialogue open, the images appear. The images in question are a div with an id of "joel-image" and the nav item...

Jquery want to position 50 divs around the top left bottom and right of page without overlapping

Hi, I would like to re-position around 50-60 divs of height - 50px width - 50px around the page absolutely using jquery but I want it so that they dont overlap any other div , there is a centered DIV on the page of Height : 700px , Width : 900px . I want these 50 divs to be around it and not overlap any other div or the centered DIV , so...

css Relative And Absolute Positioning Problem

hi my dear friends: i am looking for a way for overlapping a table on another , but with a condition. when u change the browser's size or u change the screen resolution so every positioning should be fine. i test absolute positioning (z-index and top and left) but when u change the browser's size or u change the screen resolution the ...

Absolute positioning in gmail emails

I have a client who wants to send gift certificates to people who sign up on their site. They want it all designed out, so I can't just send a text email. I'm trying to position text over the image so that it can still be dynamic. I'm trying to do this with absolute positioning. Some email systems love it. Some hate it. Gmail happens to...

Problem with CSS, on position: absolute

Hi, I don't know what kind of position shall I announce if the parent has a position: absolute. Here's the code, <div id="new_map"> <div id="map_nbc_pop"> <div class="nm_bubbletop1"></div> <div id="nm_bubblebg"> <u...

Absolutely positioned element jumping down on :active - but why??

I have an anchor with a piece wrapped in <em> tags so that I can absolutely position then on top of the anchor background sprite, which sits off to the left of the rest of the anchor text. Everything is well, except on :active the absolutely positioned bit is jumping down about 20 pixels. And I'm having a tough time diagnosing this one...

Absolutely positioned text getting cut off in IE7

http://cure.org/brant/ On the right side of the page, I have some text getting cut off in IE7. It is the HTML text numbers on top of the green tags. If you view with IE7 (or IE8 in developer mode for IE7) you'll see them getting cut off just below where they should start. I have a feeling it may have something to do with the padding on...

Loading indicator "position:absolute" always displays on top..

I am showing a loading indicator with asp:updateprogress control. Here is my css, .loading { background-color:#404040; color:#fff; top:0px; left:45%; height:23px; position:absolute; font-weight:bold; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft:3px;-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius:3px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright:3px;-we...

How do you position a div at the bottom of a table cell?

I have some tabular data. In the last column, I have 2 divs, one that shows the vote-data, and one that shows the save-data. I would like to first div to stick to the top of the table cell, and the second div to the bottom of the table cell. Setting the table cell {postion: relative;} so I can use {position: absolute;} in the divs has...

CSS: Hyperlink box not clickable unless I specify a background-color in IE8

I'm trying to make a 256x256px transparent clickable box thats on top of 3 layers which toggle on/off (just a status display). I gave the 3 layers a z-index of -1 and the hyperlink box a z-index of 5, so it should be on top. This code works fine in chrome and firefox. The strange thing is if I set a background-color for statuslink it dis...

problem with absolute positioning in firefox and chrome

I don't understand why FF and Chrome render my page differently. Here's a screenie of it in firefox: and here's one in chrome chrome: fieldset has a relative position and the image has an absolute position. here's the basic structure: <fieldset class="passenger-info"> <legend>Passenger 1</legend> <div class="remove-me"> ...

How can I make a position:absolute; div inside a position: relative; div work in a layout centered by margin: 0 auto; ?

I have a centered layout using margin:0 auto;, but one of my child divs isn't positioning itself absolutely (relative to its parent). The page looks fine until the window is resized. Then the child div gets pushed to the very right, and the top image (in another div) gets clipped. What code changes do I need to make? Here's the CSS: ...