Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 10/08/45 11:25

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Saggy wrote:

> "http://www.w3c.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd"
>
> my website is messed up, in particular, a table I positioned using
>
> style="position:absolute; left: 10; top:65"
>
> now is not positioned correctly.

You are mistaken. The *correct* treatment of those invalid left and top
specifications is to ignore them. Any browser which does not ignore them
is violating a mandatory requirement of the CSS specification, and as such
has ruled itself out as a www-compatible browser.

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#parsing-errors

This may not be what you want, but it -is- what you were asking for.

> What is going on?

The solution is to ask for what you want, instead of asking for one thing
and wanting something different.

You may find the W3C CSS checker will help you.

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