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Posted by Ben C on 05/25/07 15:58
On 2007-05-25, jobs <jobs@webdos.com> wrote:
> sorry for the noob question.
>
> I know I can position a div tag in hmtl as such..
>
> <div id=ccc style="align:bottom;position:absolute;left:1px;width:
> 200px;height:300px;border: ghostwhite thin ridge;float-right">
> hello
></div>
Almost. There's no align property, but you might be thinking of
"vertical-align". And you need float: right, not float-right.
> is there any way to do all of this in css?
You have already done it in CSS. The string inside the style attribute
_is_ CSS.
> I tried this with no luck. I know the css is taking some effect
> because i set background-color in the body entry and it worked.
>
><div id="ccc">
> hello
></div>
>
> css:
>
> #ccc
> {
> position:absolute;
> left:200px;
> top:400px;
> width:200px;
> height:300px;
> border: ghostwhite thin ridge;
> color: red;
> background-color:blue;
> }
That looks fine, there's no reason why it shouldn't work. You need to
post a URL.
> Another question, when should I use DIV and when should I use SPAN?
Whichever you want really. Usually DIV for block-level things and SPAN
for inline-level things. Use the other HTML elements unless there isn't an
appropriate one for what the element contains.
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