I almost feel guilty for bringing it up....

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>wrote:

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> Greg Newman <greg@20seven.org> writes:
> > You're welcome.Fixed works too.  Absolute can act goofy if the main body
> and
> > starting div aren't set to absolute.  I should have known better.
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> Fixed will not work in IE. It will scroll out of view if you scroll the
> page.
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> See the bottom of org.css on how add the `absolute' positioning for IE
> only (the simple way...). [2]
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> > Sebastion: divs work too on some browsers.  Some browsers (cough) IE will
> > sometimes collapse them if they have no content.  I've  always had better
> > luck with a transparent image.
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> Good, I heard that before. I guess it was IE 5 or something. Don't how
> the MAC version of IE is (crap I guess).
>
> It looks good and works (Linux FF 3 and Opera 10).
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>    Sebastian
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> [1] Actually, the position is choosen relative (default) or absolute to
>    the next parent, that has a non-default `position'. This works in
>    all browsers.
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>    Example:
>
>    <div style="position:relative;">  <!-- nothing special, but rules -->
>     <div style="position:absolute; top:-10px; right:-10px">
>      <!-- close link and icon here -->
>     </div>
>    </div>
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>    It's important, to add _no_ padding and _no_ margin to the elements
>    meant for positioning. Paddings and margins are handled
>    differently. IE does it all wrong then.
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> [2] This here might work (not sure if this works, if we position the img
>    though. Maybe we'll have to position the link and use
>    display:block;):
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>    * html a.logo-link {
>       position: absolute;
>       top: 0px;
>       left: 0px;
>       width: 190px;
>       height: 190px;
>    }
>