Posted by Spartanicus on 02/06/07 14:06

"mrcakey \(The Eclectic Electric\)" <nospam@spamispoo.spam> wrote:

>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.

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Spartanicus

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