Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > I have the following problem which seems to be because of my lack of > knowledge of some basic css. I hope someone can help explaining this > to me. > http://www.budiardja.org/tmp/css_test.html Absolute positioned elements have no effect on their containers. Absolute positioned elements are "taken out of the flow" - browsers treat them as if they exist in another dimension (which in fact they do). Change #left_column to 'position: relative;', and you'll get it back into the right dimension and get the appearance you're after. For some basic information on the subject, read the entire chapter on... "9.8 Comparison of normal flow, floats, and absolute positioning" <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#comparison> regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL-REMOVED]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
