Posted by ironcorona on 05/04/06 21:04

Skeeve wrote:
> What I'm trying to do is place divs within table data elements with
> absolute values in relation to the td container. The problem is, in
> order to do that, you have to use position; relative (or other position
> type) for the container. Otherwise, the objects contained within the
> container will just ignore the container. The problem is that IE works
> and FF doesn't. To make FF work, it was recommended that I use
> display: block;. That works for that td, but breaks the rest of the
> table.
>
> So, maybe I'm just barking up the wrong tree with this design, and I
> know I can solve all of this by using a div within the td, but I don't
> like that because then I'm changing the markup to cater to the display,
> which is generally bad.
>
> Does that make sense?

Yes, it does. Did you see my post where I told you

"Take out the width:500px; from
td#container and add it into the overall table rules."

Did that work? It seemed to work in my borwsers.


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ironcorona

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