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Re: Anything wrong with absolute positioning?
It can be bad. Or not. It depends on how it’s used.
It’s mostly used with fixed-width (or worst, fixed-size) layouts. A thing I’m not found of.
In real web design, including fluid layout, it can be use to position things relatively to one edge. Example: I commonly use it to position a search tool in a menu or navbar or near the site logo, things like that, when the html code for that search form is at the end of the html source.
A good thing to test your design is to try several radicaly different screen size (from 800×600 to 1600×1200 and up, at 4/3, at 16/9, and several other ratios), font size (from the very small ones to the very big ones, like 2 or 3 times bigger than most websites).
If your design doesn’t break, then it’s good. And it doesn’t matter if you use absolute positiong to achieve it.
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#3 2006-01-08 19:24:37
- Adam
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Re: Anything wrong with absolute positioning?
This article might help you get a perspective on absolute positioning.
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