[thelist] CSS layout help needed

[klute]

rosalie and marc and others, thanks for your replies.

to give you some background: someone built the layout
for me based on a template (
http://www.cssdev.com/csslayouts/vertical/two_column/fluid_right.htm
) frome the site recommended by cody. i felt it was ok
to go with the absolute positioning for the right nav
(marc, you are right, i'll change the name of that to
vertbar or something) since the template has a decent
browser support and states: "All of these templates
are hack free and have been tested on IE 5+ Win/Mac,
Opera 6+, Firefox 0.8+ and Konqueror."

  
anyway, because of the latest problem i hit with
absolute positioning that i just came to know, i
decided to switch to the relative positioning for the
vertical bar ( http://devbistro.com/wdf/index2.html ).
now, the header nav images don't show up but that's
obviously a different problem i have to tackle.

thanks a lot to all for your help with this
james

--- "M. Seyon" <evoltlist at delime.com> wrote:

> Message from klute (1/8/2005 08:47 PM)
> >hello all,
> >
> >I have a css problem which i am hope to get some
> help
> >with. the issue is: if the right nav bar has more
> >content than the main content area, its content
> gets
> >pushed down over the footer. how would i resolve
> it?
> >here is the problem in action:
> >http://www.devbistro.com/wdf/
> 
> The rightbar div (and I would personally rethink
> this name to something 
> more indicative of the content it contains rather
> than where it appears on 
> screen, as it'd be kinda silly if you ever decided
> to redesign the site and 
> put this content on the left) is absolutely
> positioned, so it doesn't 
> affect the document flow.
> 
> The footer will position itself immediately after
> the normally positioned 
> body div. That's one of the consequences of
> haphazard use of absolute 
> positioning, I'm afraid. There are other ways to
> implement that layout that 
> don't rely on absolute positioning because really,
> it's not a very 
> complicated one.
> 
> Both Rosalie and myself posted useful links to
> better understand 
> positioning in your earlier thread titled "CSS
> expert opinion needed". Go 
> take a closer read.
> 
> regards.
> -marc
> 
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