Andrew, > is there a way to have a div float above or below other absolute-positioned > divs? Yes. Look into "z-index" [1, 2]. You set a higher z-index value for the div that you want to float above the other divs. Should work in IE 4+, Netscape 4+ (although I've done very little with CSS positioning in Netscape 4.x, and can't adequately warn you of the potential pitfalls). 1. W3C documentation: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visuren.html#propdef-z-index 2. Microsoft's documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/zIndex. asp