Posted by dorayme on 12/21/06 22:05

In article <slrneol90f.i37.spamspam@bowser.marioworld>,
Ben C <spamspam@spam.eggs> wrote:

> Well, I don't design a lot of websites, but it seems to me that
> absolute positioning is better for this than floats.
>
> This way they'll always run right to the edge and never jump down:
>
> <style type="text/css">
> div
> {
> position: absolute;
> height: 600px;
> }
> #one
> {
> left: 0;
> right: 66%;
> background-color: red;
> }
> #two
> {
> left: 33%;
> right: 33%;
> background-color: green;
> }
> #three
> {
> left: 66%;
> right: 0;
> background-color: blue;
> }
> </style>

Why the two dimensions, left and right? Would not left be good
enough, at least for #one and #two? Or am I not thinking this
through, I don't use absolute positioning myself (but I am
thinking of it! I like the idea of the content being first in the
source code).

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dorayme

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