[thelist] positioning a DIV nested within an A
Ben Yates
byates at emich.edu
Tue Sep 14 14:40:22 CDT 2004
>Well, you can't nest a DIV inside an A, so you're off on the right foot.
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Oops. Changed to a span (with display: block).
The idea is to have the interior span far, eyeball-wise, from its parent
A; they'll still be linked via rollovers. It's easiest just to look at
the link:
http://people.emich.edu/byates/bluehair/
I've positioned them using pixels, but this won't do at all -- the page
layout is fluid, and I want their position to change with the window
size. Easy enough to do normally -- just specify right: 20px (or
however far from the right side of the screen) but in this case they
insist on measuring from the right edge of the parent element -- the a
tag -- rather than the right edge of the topmost ancestor element. (One
possible fix I've thought of is to redefine the menu width, and hence
the a tag width, in terms of percentages, then define the span position
in (absurdly large -- 1000%?) percentage terms as well: the menu will
expand and contract, and therefore so will the span. This'll play havok
with my layout, though, and may not work at all, so I haven't tried it yet.)
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