Re: CSS Positioning Madness

[Wayne McAlpine <wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Take a look at using the <div> tag.  It's a very powerful way to apply a 
style to an entire block.

John Taylor wrote:
> Ok, so I'm making an effort to use CSS for layout instead of tables, and
> it's not going well. I use VS2008 as my IDE, and after many hours of
> frustration, I finally have a layout that looks correct in the designer.
> Then I preview in IE7 and FF3, and neither renders even close to what I see
> in the VS designer. In fact, I have three rendered windows, and three
> completely different results. We're not talking about a pixel nudge here and
> there, but a jumbled mess of divs all over the place.
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> Then I spend several more hours reading about CSS positioning on the web
> until my eyes begin to glaze over. Just when I think I have it figured out,
> I read another tutorial or article that completely contradicts what I just
> learned. Take RELATIVE positioning for example; I've now read that it means
> a div using relative positioning will be offset from the parent container,
> from the browser viewport itself, or relative to its "normal" flow placement
> (whatever the heck that would be).  One question. three different answers.
> Hmmm..
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> I now have four days into this website, and I've yet to manage to even
> layout my page header so that it looks reasonably correct on both major
> browsers and my IDE. Of course there is a learning curve associated with any
> new technology, but this is nuts. I'm just about ready to give up on CSS
> positioning and go back to tables. But I hate giving up, and so would like
> to take one last kick at the cat, so I'm asking for your help. Are you using
> CSS for layout? If so, do you have any suggestions for a good website to use
> as a tutorial and reference resource? How about those CSS Toolkits. is
> anyone using those to deal with cross-browser compatibility issues?