Vertical placement via styles?

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Vertical placement via styles?

Tonearm

12:25 am on Nov 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

Is it possible to change the vertical placement of layout components via styles? I'd like to be able to put the code for the content of a page at the top, closest to the opening body tag, but have the navigation template appear above it in the page's display. This is better in case of a minimal browser right?

djclark

12:46 am on Nov 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

I asked the same question the other day

here is something that we found worked

Just what i was after, thanks for the help
finished results.

Tonearm

1:34 am on Nov 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

That looks great, thank you very much.

Tonearm

2:55 am on Nov 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

I'm experimenting with this and I won't be able to specify a static pixel height for the navigation section. I have some text in there that affects the height. Is there anything I can do?

djclark

4:08 am on Nov 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

not that i know of.

i have been fortunete and have static size nav bars.

rjohara

4:14 am on Nov 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

The general thing you are trying to do is to create what's called a "source ordered" document. If you search Google for "source ordered" you'll find many sites which describe various approaches to this.

Tonearm

4:51 pm on Nov 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

Yes source ordered definitely seems to be it. I'm looking through Google's results and this seems to be a tricky subject. Many different ways to make it work, and many different bugs to pop up in different browsers. Please let me know if you have a particular 3-column and/or vertical placement technique that works well.

Tonearm

5:06 pm on Nov 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

I found this linked from webmasterworld:

[positioniseverything.net...]

It seems good, but I can't seem to find one that allows you to use a header & 3-column design with the content (middle column) at the very top of the source. Is this possible?