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[Kenneth Downs]

Peter Sawczynec wrote:
> I believe it could be appropriate to used nested divs, as in roughly:
>
> <div id="parent"
> style="position:absolute;top:100px;left:270px;width:400px;height:300px;b
> ackground-color:#eheheh;color:#333333;">
> <div id="c1"></div><div id=c2"></div>
> </div>
>
>   

This was my first approach.  However, there is a ripple effect to take 
into consideration.

In my case I was dealing with some custom content nested about 8 levels 
in on a template that I downloaded from somebody else.  When you use the 
position: absolute, you must take into consideration the parent element, 
so then I'd go change that, messing up the template, and trying to fix 
it would just start breaking more stuff.

That was my motivation for a construction that was free-standing, that 
would not require any settings in the containing element.

-- 
Kenneth Downs
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