[thelist] CSS positioning

[Alastair Murdoch]

OK, I'm running out of ideas but there is one last thing.  Netscape doesn't
like things in table cells so you will probably never quite get that working
right.  I also neglected to notice that you are centering the table on the
page.  This may be adding to your problems as there is no easy way to
position layers reliably, relative to the browser window (well none that
I've found).

Is it just a dropdown menu that you want??  There are quite a few scripts
available that work reliably in all 4+ browsers and I've got an adapted one
I could send you.  You would have to left align or fix the position of your
page however.

If I get time I might take another look but I'm afraid I'm out of ideas.

Let me know how you get on.

Alastair

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-----Original Message-----
From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
[mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Brad
Sent: 29 May 2001 00:26
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: RE: [thelist] CSS positioning


OK I tried this but it didn't work.

<-----Original Message----->
try taking your layers out of the table cell and placing them at
the end of your code between the last table cell and the close body tag (or
before the open body and the first table tag).  There being positioned
absolutely so it doesn't matter where they are in the code itself.  Netscape
can get a bit flaky with positioned elements inside tables.
<----- End Original Message----->


I removed the positioning and placed everything where they need to be in the
tables. So far so good. The only issue now is the dropdown menus. The
dropdowns are now showing up in NN in the top left corner of the page. And
in IE they show up in the top left corner of the first menu item.

Is there a way for me to define a relative origin for the dropdowns without
positioning the main menu items? Or do I need to go back to positioning the
main items for this to work?

When I switched the dropdowns to relative vs. absolute it threw everything
out of whack. I don't understand why it does this.
this link has the dropdowns set to relative
www.beldamar.com/daktek/index3.html
this link has the dropdowns set to absolute
www.beldamar.com/daktek/index4.html

Thanks,
Brad Miller
www.rapidfx.com




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