Posted by Michael Laplante on 11/20/19 11:46

"dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:doraymeRidThis-D55A3D.09231702052006@news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
> In article <Z%p5g.2928$Yy5.1479@edtnps89>,
> "Michael Laplante" <nowhereman@twilightzone.net> wrote:

> It is good advice to be rid of tricky absolute positioning if you
> can do without it.

Because. . .? Your mate said the same thing but didn't offer up a reason.
Even point me to a tutorial on the evils of absolute positioning and I'll be
impressed and grateful.

> Your blue menu floats to sometimes obscure text or look oddly
> misplaced (it looks to have no place!). And it breaks badly when
> text is enlarged.

You're the first one who has ever mentioned this. Nor can I can replicate
this behaviour in any of my three browsers. What browser / version are you
using? Do you use a personalized stylesheet?

"It looks to have no place!" Can you expand on that?

What do you mean by "breaks badly?' Lots of pages -- even ones that
validate -- break badly when text is enlarged.

Any suggestions re: my original request for margins? I don't need 'em
necessarily, nor do I need a specific size as some earlier respondants
assumed. I can always leave it up to the user to do it via their printer
settings. For me it's just a "nice to do" thing. Toby Inkster suggested
print stylesheets but they aren't going to be simple -- in this case -- from
what I've been reading. (DIVS not printing across pages, tables breaking at
inconvenient points, pagebreak not recognized by all browsers, etc.)

Thanks. . .

M

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