css's absolute relative nonsense!

this is your brain ->* this is your brain on css->(!&#?!?/!+

[royalelephant]

css's absolute relative nonsense!

Right now I have a page of three-columned boxes (left-middle-right) using the absolute property and top and left settings. I'd like to keep the same "look" of three side-by-side columns using boxes, but I'd like to "drop" the absolute property for relative and static or a mix of both.

I've been trying to figure out

which column (L-M-R) should have
what property (relative/static)
what top/left/right px statement, and
in which order should the L-M-R appear in the .css

All I've been able to accomplish is either L/R correctly aligned with the M column, but not both L and R! I figure there must be a simple rubric for what I want. Is there?

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[createErrorMsg]

Piefecta [positioniseverything.net]

[bcolflesh]

Thanks for that link - very nice work on the "auto-generate" tool linked at the bottom of that example.

[royalelephant]

Piefecta

!

:o

This is really above my ability, but I'm gonna spend some hours with it and see what is really going on with it.

[createErrorMsg]

This is really above my ability

Nonsense! :)

It is a complicated layout, but if you spend the time to dissect it you'll walk away not only with a solid three column layout but with a much better understanding of how the elements of css-P work. It's well worth the study and I'm sure you'll meet with success.

cEM

[royalelephant]

but if you spend the time to dissect it

Oh, I will. I think it's great, but my understanding of css is very basic and I usually just learn the parts I need for the task at hand, so I'm sort of clueless as to many of the real css work that this displays. It's really amazing css work but gonna take me some days to get comfortable with. (My trusted method of learning is to copy something that works and tweak it for myself, so I can learn my seeing and doing.) I would call my knowledge of css "anecdotal"esp. boxes
;)