RE: FN-FORUM: FW: Could be a CSS thing?

date posted 17th May 2006 16:17

What are you talking about, I don't use Dreamweaver, never have never =
will.

My suggestion to using absolute positioning was intended as general =
advice
on page layouts.

I think you need to learn what you are talking about before you write
anything, I hand code all my CSS and am fully certified to do so.

As you said yourself "divs do not have to be "inside" each other -
semantically they just mark out sections on the page..." I never said =
that
divs should be inside each other, but if you position anything inside a =
div
it should be with a SPAN, as I said before a span is an empty unknown =
object
to the browser, a div by default is known and with inherit properties =
from
it's parent.=20

Div's are page elements and not just for marking out the page, that is =
what
the use of z-index and float, clear and such are used for, as DIV are =
known
to people like myself "who know what they are talking about" as layers. =
In
English they are the layers of the DOM on the page, and no I am not =
going to
tell you what the DOM is, if you don't know, well...

I have to say you comment " That's not terribly good advice..." is way
outside the realms of good forum behaviour.

We are all playing in the same game hear, the forum is meant to be an =
aid
for us all to help each other and make this life of development a little
more acceptable. Each time I come across a know it all like you I just =
think
why are you even on this planet!!!!!!!!!!!!



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Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: FW: Could be a CSS thing?


Sean J Connolly wrote:
> You need to put the layers inside each other particularly the BoxTop =
and
> BoxMid classed layers, also a note when using layers you should really =
use
> SPAN's inside DIV's not DIV's inside DIV's, as span have not inherent
> formatting where as divs do.
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> The alternative is to position everything absolutely and set a z-index =
for
> each item.


That's not terribly good advice...

I suspect it's from a dreamweaver user's perspective?

divs do not have to be "inside" each other - semantically they just=20
mark out sections on the page...

spans are inline elements and div's are block level elements, and if=20
the have "inherent" formatting it's coming from that fact alone...

positioning everything absolutely is a very unfriendly way of doing=20
things and almost certain to break...

I think your advice is probably more confusing than helpful, but fair=20
play for trying.

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