absolute positioning differences

[alice]

Can someone point me to a page that has good info on how the different
browsers handle positioning? I'm finding that position:absolute works
differently between Safari and IE7. Sort of ironic if you ask me. I
can't seem to easily find anything on the web about how to handle
this. Is there some sort of hack for IE?

[Bergamot]

alice wrote:

Can someone point me to a page that has good info on how the different
browsers handle positioning? I'm finding that position:absolute works
differently between Safari and IE7.

More likely, you don't really understand how positioning methods are
*supposed* to work, regardless of browser. Whatever issue you are having
may well be due to incorrect assumptions on your part, invalid code,
illogical code, or some combination of the 3.

I should mention that absolute positioning should be avoided altogether
until you fully understand what the repercussions of using it are and
how to avoid problems such as scalability.

Is there some sort of hack for IE?

Learn how things are supposed to work before you start hacking away.
http://brainjar.com/css/positioning/

You've posted here before, so you should already know to validate your
HTML and CSS to eliminate syntax errors as a cause of rendering issues.
And use HTML 4.01 Strict for best browser compatibility.

If you are still having trouble after that, post a URL.

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Berg