Posted by Neredbojias on 08/08/07 02:07

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:04:09
GMT Yuri Shtil scribed:

> I want to layout an HTML page as follows:
>
> 1- a number of vertical (on top of each other) containers on the
> top
> level
> 2 - each container in 1 may have a number of horizontally laid
> containers 3 - each container in 2 may have a number of containers
> type 1
>
> Here is an example of what I am trying to accomplish:
>
> header
> Text <select> text <textfield> <checkbox> label
>
> ---------- ---------| ----------
> text | | text | | text |
> select | | select | | select |
> ---------- ---------- ----------
>
> ---------- ---------| ----------
> text | | text | | text |
> table | | table | | table |
> ---------- ---------- ----------
>
> I played with the display attributes and tried to wrap the boxes into
> <div> to no avail.
>
> Basically I need to know:
> - how to create a container element that can be positioned
> horizontaly
> or vertically relative to the parent container.

Any container within a relatively-positioned outer container and positioned
absolutely will do that. Normally it's a <div>.

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Neredbojias
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