pmj7 — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 22:30:01 +0000

Well, I've tried various things like Tables, divs with a wide variety of styles. Nothing has worked. What I'm using now is a div with a zindex, background and text colours so it covers things if it happens to be on top of them.

I've only found the one site like this, I'm sure there are many more. Is it common to have everything absolutely positioned?

Peter

pmj7 — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 01:13:50 +0000

That's my point. I did just add my code immediately before the tag and it gets drawn starting from the top left part of the page. I'm guessing that one of the css files for that page uses floating divs with absolute positioning. I can't give an absolute position for my stuff that will work with every page on the Internet.

So, the question is, if someone uses floating, absolute-positions divs is there any special css applied to plain old html or span or div that will place it immediately after the existing stuff? I'd prefer to avoid using - gasp! - frames. My code doesn't have to be in a span, div, or anything else. But, it can if it needs to be.

Peter

brady.k — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 22:10:12 +0000

Well, if you are wanting to use a div as another layer, you have to use absolute positioning

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Vincent Puglia — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:57:06 +0000

Hi Peter,

I followed the link...and have to admit I don't know what I'm looking for...especially since I didn't see any floating/scrolling divs.

Any rate:

If you are parsing a page onto a new page, why can't you simply append your content just before the closing body tag? Or, if you are intent on using a div, set the div's style.top to the bottom of the screen?

Perhaps a more specific explanation and/or code would be helpful.

Vinny