absolute-positioning

Width of absolute positioned DIV in IE quirksmode

I am working with a web application that is designed to run on IE quirksmode (it was initially designed a few years ago). I was trying to do something with absolute positioning in it, but it did not work as I expected. I have a simplified example illustrating my issue. Please see below. <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <div...

IE 8 absolute positioned element outside its parent clipping problem

I have an absolute positioned div inside another absolute positioned div. The child div content is much bigger than the parent can contain. This is by design. I need the child div to spill out of its parent. It does so in every other browser except IE 8 (IE 7 looks OK, not sure) In IE8 the part of the child that is out of parent is clipp...

submit button not lining up no matter what with two input boxes in a table.

Hello, This is ordinarily a simple task. I have a simple sign in form that has an email input,password input, and a submit button, all in a horizontal line. After hours and hours of taking styles off, and trying different structures, the button sits a little lower then the boxes. I am thinking it might be because I have absolutely positi...

How can I position a modal box out of the browser in HTML ?

I want to position a modal box (position: absolute) out of browser, but I can't get it work. It would be cool to position modal box on secondary monitor (if user has one, of course). Hey, this one keeps me frustrating :/ ...

Absolute position is not working

Hi, I'm trying to place a div with id 'absPos' in absolute position in relation to its parent div. But it is not working, the div is placed at the top left corner of the page. My code sample is as follows <html> <body> <div style="padding-left: 50px;"> <div style="height: 100px"> Some contents ...

Div with scrollbar inside div with position:fixed

I have a div with position:fixed that is my container div for some menus. I've set it to top:0px, bottom:0px to always fill the viewport. Inside that div I want to have 2 other divs, the lower one of which contains lots of lines and has overflow:auto. I would expect that it would be contained within the container div, but if there are to...

Absolutely positioned links shifting to unexpected position on click (a:active)

I have a couple links on this page (http://tuscaroratackle.com) that are ending up at unexpected positions in their :active state. The links are absolutely positioned, so I'm guessing the issue is partly due to that. But I can't figure out what rules are getting applied on :active to make them shift down and to the left so far. I do have...

ho to make absolute divs align with table cell/row?

hello everyone, i just started building a new website. the website page im working on at the moment is 100% percent height and 100% width, so the content should be viewed all the time. in the page i have a table, who represents the days of the week. now, every day of the week looks like this: <td style="height:100%"> <div style="po...

IFRAME and conflicting absolute positions.

I would like to have an IFRAME dynamically sized using the following CSS: #myiframe { position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; left: 0; right: 0; } However, no browser seems to support this. In good browsers I could wrap the IFRAME in a DIV with the quoted CSS style and set the height & width of the IFRAME to 100%. ...

This panel keeps getting position: absolute applied. How can I stop it?

I'm using an AbsolutePanel to do some drag-and-drop kind of stuff. I add child Widgets to the AbsolutePanel, and then use absolutePanel.setWidgetPosition to set their position. But I keep getting this error: java.lang.IllegalStateException: com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.AbsolutePanel is missing CSS 'position:{relative,absolute,fixe...

CSS Relative-Absolute positioning and content height

I want to create a slideshow of images that are contained in a <ul>: <ul> <li><a href="images/01/large.jpg"><img src="images/01/default.jpg"></a></li> <li><a href="images/02/large.jpg"><img src="images/02/default.jpg"></a></li> <li><a href="images/03/large.jpg"><img src="images/03/default.jpg"></a></li> <li><a href="imag...

CSS - absolute positioning and fluid divs

Hi I need to make a layout that looks like this: [250px - fixed div] [fluid div, must expand depending on the width of the body and the 2 divs next/before it] [250px - fixed div] is this possible? the container of all 3 divs is also fluid (100% width). all these divs contain background images (left + right + repeating center image...