Re: CSS and Positioning issues

Previously in alt.html, <nightstar@xxxxxxxxx> said:

> Here is a watered down version of the code including my css file, as i
> am just trying to get the proper formatting:

A URL is much more useful.

> In the HTML when I display bottom section it does not show up at the
> very bottom, it displays overtop of where midsection begins.

This is normal behaviour given the code in question. That is what
absolute positioning does - it removes the element from the flow of the
page, so anything following it acts as though that element was never
there in the first place.

> I need
> help organizing this to make it display correctly based upon my first
> message in the thread.

Um, this *is* the first message in the thread.[1]

<looks back through other threads>

Ah, you must be talking about this message:
<1123683515.327837.51300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> It seems that
(amongst other things) Google Groups is also dreadful at threading. If
at all possible, please do everyone a favour and get yourself a real
newsreader. Personally, I use 40tude Dialog -
http://www.40tude.com/dialog/ - but there are plenty of free ones
available. Even *cough* Outlook Express *cough* is preferable to Google.

> I have looked over numerous sites with no prevail. Maybe some savvy
> person with fresh eyes can find the dumb mistake I have with keeping in
> mind IE and Firefox.

You have misunderstood how absolute positioning works. Absolute
positioning should very rarely be used - there is certainly no need to
use it in this situation.

In this case, as mbstevens said in the other thread, a bank statement is
definitely tabular data, so use a table for the transactions. Just one
will suffice. ;-)


[1] Actually *this* is the second. The one I'm replying to is, of
course, the first. :-)

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