rf wrote:
> 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.
Ah, OK, thanks. I was concentrating on the section on absolute
positioning and didn't bother to read the section on relative positioning.