GRR, technical jargon posts are confusing
Web design seems to always enthrall me and piss me off.
css in particular has a way of confusing the fuck out of me. Absolute positioning is a bitch.
and while the prospect of Microsoft Expression Web 2 was exciting. It is turning into a whole other beast.
coding is linear. eg
element a
element b
element c
element d
etc
If I want a, b, and c to sit side by side in the form of columns I can adjust the left margin of elements b and c, and they will sit next to each other, though vertically offset by the previous element. so it looks a bit like a set of stairs.
Relative positioning can move each item up a certain amount, but leaves the vertical space that would naturally be taken up by that item, so I end up with a huge block of white space between a and d.
Absolute positioning can set all items top edge to the same place, but then moves d up to cover the elements that have been abs positioned. So if I just abs b and c, it moves d to the bottom of a. this would work if element a was the longest of the elements.
I've tried enveloping a/b/c within a containing element, but that doesn't do anything for me.
tried various display options. a set of 3 element d's with inline display properties work perfectly, but doing the same with three different elements doesn't seem to work.
ARG.
css in particular has a way of confusing the fuck out of me. Absolute positioning is a bitch.
and while the prospect of Microsoft Expression Web 2 was exciting. It is turning into a whole other beast.
coding is linear. eg
element a
element b
element c
element d
etc
If I want a, b, and c to sit side by side in the form of columns I can adjust the left margin of elements b and c, and they will sit next to each other, though vertically offset by the previous element. so it looks a bit like a set of stairs.
Relative positioning can move each item up a certain amount, but leaves the vertical space that would naturally be taken up by that item, so I end up with a huge block of white space between a and d.
Absolute positioning can set all items top edge to the same place, but then moves d up to cover the elements that have been abs positioned. So if I just abs b and c, it moves d to the bottom of a. this would work if element a was the longest of the elements.
I've tried enveloping a/b/c within a containing element, but that doesn't do anything for me.
tried various display options. a set of 3 element d's with inline display properties work perfectly, but doing the same with three different elements doesn't seem to work.
ARG.