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text positioning

Sent by Gunlaug_Sørtun on 30 January 2009 02:02


David McGlone wrote:

> I'm thinking that even though there are more than 1 words, closing 
> the tag after each word does not make it a whole new box that can be 
> moved individually.
> 
> Am I thinking correctly?

No, I'm afraid your thinking is flawed for positioning bits of text on
top of a fixed background (image).

For the left column only: if you want to use a fixed background for your
text - links or whatever, this is the most steady method...
<http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/dmg/test_09_0130.html>
<http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/dmg/test_09_0130_files/styles00.css>
....where individual paragraphs are absolute positioned.

Those paragraphs will adjust vertically for font resizing, but long
lines will overflow horizontally pretty quickly.

If you want links instead, just replace the <p>s with <a>s.


Sidenote:

The entire <http://www.dmcentral.net/eweb/> shows that you're relying on
what you see for browser-defaults at your end - your layout has no
flexibility. Not a good idea since that means your layout is doomed to
fail...
<http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_additions_37.html>
....and I do not think you want that :-)

You're also declaring a number of properties/values back to their
default-values. Although there's no harm in doing so, you get a lot of
unnecessary declarations in there.

regards
	Georg
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