Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> wrote in
news:66ektnF2jvlqiU1@mid.individual.net:

> Test wrote:
>> Is it possibel to have DIV's inside a table cell so that their
>> position can be given relative to top left corner of the cell.
>
> Yes.
>
>> Now the DIVs seem to position
>> themselves relative to previous object.
>
> Without seeing your page it isn't possible for anyone to know what you
> should expect to see or what you need to do to change it.
>
> If the position of the cell is specified "relative" then a DIV inside
> it with position: absolute should be positioned relative to the cell's
> origin, and IE 7 does this, but on the other hand if the cell is
> styled with a border, the border disappears. Firefox, in contrast,
> positions the DIV relative to the viewport origin (assuming there are
> no containing blocks between the viewport and the cell; I didn't test
> any other case).
>
> If you nest the DIV inside another, relative positioned DIV, inside
> the cell, which now doesn't have to be relative positioned, then the
> positioning works in Firefox.
>
> So I think Firefox has a bug in this respect.

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.h...opdef-position

"The effect of 'position: relative on ... table-cell ... is undefined."
All browsers are behaving correctly. If the effect is undefined they are
free to do whatever they want.


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