I'm a little new to this aspect of web design...could someone tell me what
it is I need to do to get items to display on top of one another (via
layers)? Even when I assign high z-indices to an id, it still interrupts
the flow of the page. I need it to not interrupt the flow (like it's
display is "none"), yet be visible and cover another part of the page. What
am I doing wrong?

TIA,
Aaron

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 20:40:53 -0800, "Aaron" <agchandler@comcast.net>
wrote:
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>I'm a little new to this aspect of web design...could someone tell me what
>it is I need to do to get items to display on top of one another (via
>layers)? Even when I assign high z-indices to an id, it still interrupts
>the flow of the page. I need it to not interrupt the flow (like it's
>display is "none"), yet be visible and cover another part of the page. What
>am I doing wrong?[/color]

Assuming that what you're doing can't be adequately addressed by
background images, you need to read up a bit more of the CSS spec; the
magic spell is "absolute positioning" (section 9.6).

--
Stephen Poley

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/

Stephen Poley wrote:[color=blue]
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 20:40:53 -0800, "Aaron"
> <agchandler@comcast.net> wrote:
>[color=green]
>> could someone tell me what it is I need to do to get items to
>> display on top of one another (via layers)? Even when I assign
>> high z-indices to an id, it still interrupts the flow of the
>> page. I need it to not interrupt the flow (like it's display is
>> "none"), yet be visible and cover another part of the page.[/color]
>
> Assuming that what you're doing can't be adequately addressed by
> background images, you need to read up a bit more of the CSS spec;
> the magic spell is "absolute positioning" (section 9.6).[/color]

So this cannot be done with relative positioning? I've never tried it,
but it seems like a good way to partly overlap e.g. a heading and
subheading. Plus, absolute does remove the element from the flow,
which the op wants to avoid.

--
Brian (follow directions in my address to email me)
http://www.tsmchughs.com/

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:23:34 GMT, Brian
<usenet2@julietremblay.com.invalid-remove-this-part> wrote:
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>Stephen Poley wrote:[color=green]
>> On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 20:40:53 -0800, "Aaron"
>> <agchandler@comcast.net> wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> could someone tell me what it is I need to do to get items to
>>> display on top of one another (via layers)? Even when I assign
>>> high z-indices to an id, it still interrupts the flow of the
>>> page. I need it to not interrupt the flow (like it's display is
>>> "none"), yet be visible and cover another part of the page.[/color]
>>
>> Assuming that what you're doing can't be adequately addressed by
>> background images, you need to read up a bit more of the CSS spec;
>> the magic spell is "absolute positioning" (section 9.6).[/color]
>
>So this cannot be done with relative positioning? I've never tried it,
>but it seems like a good way to partly overlap e.g. a heading and
>subheading. Plus, absolute does remove the element from the flow,
>which the op wants to avoid.[/color]

I understood that the OP *did* want to remove the element from the flow.
I guess he'll get back to us if he's still puzzled.

--
Stephen Poley

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/