Beautiful Horizontally Centered Menus/Tabs/List. No CSS hacks. Full cross-browser.

Re:Beautiful Horizontally Centered Menus/Tabs/List. No CSS h... by gord on Thursday April 09, 2009 @11:29PM (#555646)

I think its quite a good site for css layout examples...

I remember discovering how position:absolute was in fact _relative_ to the enclosing div/element, ayaaay!

another css layout approach given here - http://www.digital-web.com/articles/everything_you_know_abou... [ although ie6 seems to be broken wrt tabular divs, eek ]

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Re:Beautiful Horizontally Centered Menus/Tabs/List. No CSS h... by blasdel on Friday April 10, 2009 @12:00AM (#555671)

position:absolute only behaves that way relative to a positioned parent -- if the parent doesn't have the position attribute set, it keeps looking up the hierarchy until it finds one that is (or is the root).

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Re:Beautiful Horizontally Centered Menus/Tabs/List. No CSS h... by pmjordan on Friday April 10, 2009 @04:28AM (#555851)

While we're nit-picking: if the parent doesn't have the position attribute set isn't quite accurate: the containing block must not have static positioning (which it does by default), but one of absolute, relative or fixed.

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Re:Beautiful Horizontally Centered Menus/Tabs/List. No CSS h... by gord on Friday April 10, 2009 @07:59AM (#555940)

thats kind of my point - its not trivially obvious that "absolute" is not absolute.

I know ... RTFM.. but then theres what browsers actually do as a mixin.

Hence good examples of motifs that are reasonably portable are all the more valuable.

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