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Posted by mrcakey \(The Eclectic Electric\) on 02/06/07 14:17
"Spartanicus" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> "mrcakey \(The Eclectic Electric\)" <nospam@spamispoo.spam> wrote:
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>>How strongly would you counsel against building a page using CSS position?
>>
>>The main problem I'm having is that when I'm changing the dimensions of
>>things, I sometimes have a lot of other things to change in consequence,
>>which somewhat negates one of the advantages of using CSS, but it does
>>mean
>>I get exactly what I want where I want it.
>
> An often made mistake is to position every element, this leads to a very
> inflexible, hard to construct and hard to maintain result. Part of the
> problem is often that the author mistakes web coding with DTP, resulting
> in a wish to exert pixel precise control.
>
> CSS positioning can be used very effectively to create a layout, but
> typically only the main layout blocks should be positioned. The elements
> within the main layout boxes should normally remain in the flow. Good
> use of CSS positioning requires above average CSS skills.
>
That's great news. That's pretty much exactly what I've done - only the
menu bar has elements positioned within it, this is because I'm after a very
specific look that I'd otherwise have to do with tables and colspans and
rowspans and such yukkiness.
Thanks for replying.
::mrcakey::
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