Re: CSS Positioning question

On the worse CSS compliant Browser I have the pages look identical. 
Changing the Font size on both pages is fine.  The boxes get longer 
to allow the taller text.

iCab 2.8.1 is the browser.

At 9:10 AM -0400 8/23/02, John Woram wrote:
>I can't figure out if I'm doing something wrong, or if this is a bug,
>or what. Here's the details:
>
>I used CSS div positioning to place two images and some text within a
>boxed area. If I use relative positioning, I get the expected
>effect--ie, the images and the text are all within the box, which is
>defined by a "thispage" div class. But if I use absolute positioning,
>the box border collapses into a horizontal line across the top of the
>page.
>
>  http://www.woram.com/temp/test1.htm  Uses relative positioning
>
>  http://www.woram.com/temp/test2.htm  Same, uses absolute positioning
>
>I think my coding is OK, because everything lines up correctly. So,
>why does the boxed outline collapse in test2? I can fix this by
>specifying a height for the "thispage" div, but I don't want to do
>that because the height might change, depending on the user's choice
>of text size, etc.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>
>John Woram


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