[thelist] the order of code in html?(absolute div on top of div)

david currey dave at state51.co.uk
Tue Jun 18 17:07:01 CDT 2002


hello,
if i have an absolute positioned div before a relative div in my html,
the relative div ignores its positioning /padding etc.

if the absolute positioned div is at the end of the document it renders
correctly.

  I would like to understand why...

eg.  THIS WORKS AS EXPECTED

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>why</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" />
<style type="text/css">
.threehundreddown {
	height:115px;
	z-index:1;
	background-color: #0033FF;
	margin-top: 300px;
}
</style>
</head>

<body>

<div id="threehundreddown" class="threehundreddown">down there
</div>
<div id="abspositioned" style="position:absolute; width:200px;
height:300px; z-index:1; left: 0; top: 0; background:
#0099FF;">lklklk</div>

</body>
</html>
  

eg.  THIS DOES NOT WORK


<div id="threehundreddown" class="threehundreddown">down there
</div>
<div id="abspositioned" style="position:absolute; width:200px;
height:300px; z-index:1; left: 0; top: 0; background:
#0099FF;">lklklk</div>

Does anyone know why this is happening?

thanks,

dave

  




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