Re: Has Netscape problems with <div> position:relative???

I've run into problems in the past with absolutely position div's losing
their width setting and displaying the text in a single vertical line. I
don't recall the specific circumstances but I'm pretty sure it was with
Netscape. Placing the text in a table set to the desired width fixed the
problem.

**When you change the text, if you rewrite the entire table (ie.
innerHTML="<table><tr><td>...</td></tr></table>&nbsp;";) The table will not
display properly in Explorer 5 for Mac unless you have at least one
character included after the table such as a non breaking space. I don't
think there is a problem with changing just the text with the table cell,
but I'm not sure.

>Hi fellow designers,
>
>I am pulling my hair out over the following problem:
>I would like to dynamically change a text contents of a <div> by
>mousovers. I've got it working fine in Explorer, but Netscape (4.07) is
>tricky:
>1. If I use style="position:absolute; width:220px; top:530px;
>left:220px    The text will be displayed one word per line
>2. Using style="position:absolute; width:220px; top:1px; left:1px
>displays the textblock ok, but (of course not where I would like it to
>be positioned
>3. Preferably I want to use style="position:relative; width:220px;
>top:0px; left:0px   but NN isn't displaying the text at all.
>
>If you want to have a look at the URL:
>http://www.pws.co.nz/clients/raetihi/exp01.html  (I will have version 3
>online!)  (Please bear in mind, that the pages are in a VERY early stage
>and take quite some time to load because of pre loading about 20
>pictures....:-(  )
>
>--
>Best regards
>
>Stefan Schulz
>Professional Web Solutions           http://www.pws.co.nz


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Center for Educational Technologies
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Wheeling Jesuit University
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http://www.cet.edu/
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