HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS

B.90. position

This property sets the method used to position an element on the page.

Inherited: No

See also: Section B.20bottom, Section B.55left, Section B.93right, Section B.118top, Section B.131z-index

B.90.1. Value

This property may be set to any of the following constant values:

absolute

The element can be precisely positioned within the positioning context in which it resides. In other words, a (top,left) position of (0,0) will place the element against the top-left corner of the nearest ancestor that has a position setting other than static, or the body element.

Absolute-positioned elements do not occupy any space in the normal document flow.

fixed

This setting lets you position the element just as with absolute, but when the ...