I am new to CSS and am trying new things and am stuck at 4 am. The site
in question is
http://www.robert4.com/test/fitting.html
It is just a test page for me to practice with for a bit. My goal is to
have a pad on the page with a different background color to offset the
middle content. I also want to butt the logo and the header together but
there is a gap between them. If I use absolute positioning my problem is
what happens in the dark blue content area in that it won't span the
width of the screen. It stops when the text does. I have been trying
now for a while to get the logo and header next to each other and can do
it with absolute positioning, but how can I get the header part to fill
across to the page padding? Also, I used absolute positioning on the
dark blue section figuring 10px for the page pad and 114px for the image
height so I thought 124px from the top would place it right at the bottom
of the logo and header. Apparently I am wrong about that also.
I realize this is alot at once, but would appreciate some pointers or
references on layout techniques such as this. The book I am reading
doesn't go into this much detail.
I did notice that if I didn't use the float tag for the logo I could use
"margin-left: 80" in the header tag and the header would be perfectly
aligned with the edge of the logo BUT on the row underneath instead of
next to it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
robert