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CSS Positioning
Position is Everything

The W3C Box Model

Containing Blocks
|n general, generated boxes act as containing blocks for descendant boxes; we say that a box "establishes" the containing block for its descendants. The phrase "a box's containing block" means "the containing block in which the box lives," not the one it generates.

W3C

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html

html body div p

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Overow html body div { width: 200px; overow: hidden; } p{ width: 750px; }

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Overow html body div { width: 200px; overow: scroll; } p{ width: 750px; }

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Block vs. Inline In short Block elements generate a containing block. Inline elements, have an inline block, and are rendered as such

inline

inline

inline

inline

Block vs. Inline In short Block elements generate a containing block. Inline elements, have an inline block, and are rendered as such this is part
link continued link Line Height

of a paragraph
Containing Block Width

Block vs. Inline

foo { display: block; } inline none and others

A LittleForMore on Floats Good Measure

p (Containing Block)
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img { oat: left; }

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img { oat: left; }

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img

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#footer { clear: both; }

Left

Right

#left { oat: left; }

#right { oat: right; }

Left

Right

#left { oat: left; width: 250px; }

margin

#right { margin: 0 0 0 270px; }

Left

Right

Positioning Time to get moving

foo { position: static; } relative absolute xed

The box is a normal box, laid out according to the normal ow. The 'left' and 'top' properties do not apply.

static foo { position: relative; relative } absolute xed

The box's position is calculated according to the normal ow (this is called the position in normal ow). Then the box is offset relative to its normal position. When a box B is relatively positioned, the position of the following box is calculated as though B were not offset.

relative

static foo { relative position: absolute; absolute } xed

The box's position (and possibly size) is specied with the 'left', 'right', 'top', and 'bottom' properties. These properties specify offsets with respect to the box's containing block. Absolutely positioned boxes are taken out of the normal ow. This means they have no impact on the layout of later siblings. Also, though absolutely positioned boxes have margins, they do not collapse with any other margins.

absolute

static relative foo { absolute position: xed xed; }

The box's position is calculated according to the 'absolute' model, but in addition, the box is xed with respect to some reference. In the case of continuous media, the box is xed with respect to the viewport (and doesn't move when scrolled).

xed

Offset Properties

top species how far a box's top content edge is offset below the top edge of the box's left species how far a box's left content edge is offset to the right of the left edge of the box's containing block.

top: 0; left: 0;

top species how far a box's top content edge is offset below the top edge of the box's right species how far a box's right content edge is offset to the left of the right edge of the box's containing block.

top: 0; right: 0;

top species how far a box's bottom content edge is offset above the bottom of the box's containing block. right species how far a box's right content edge is offset to the left of the right edge of the box's containing block.

bottom: 0; right: 0;

bottom: 200px; left: 10px; top: 50%; left: 50%;

Relatively Absolute Positioning

#header { position: relative; } #foo { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; } #content

#header { position: relative; } #foo { position: absolute; bottom: 0; right: 0; } #content

#header { position: relative; } #foo { position: absolute; bottom: 0; right: 0; } #bar { position: absolute; bottom:0; left: 0; } #content

Overlapping Elements

Z axis Closer (Higher Z) Farther (Lower Z)

viewer

z-index: 3 z-index: 2

z-index: 1

z-index: 1 z-index: 10

z-index: 5

Each element with a z-index, denes a local stacking context

z-index: 1 z-index: 10

z-index: 5

Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks, & Techniques

Mark Newhouse http://www.alistapart.com/articles/practicalcss/

Cascading Style Sheets: The Denitive Guide

Eric Meyer ISBN: 0-596-00525-3

Cascading Style Sheets: The Denitive Guide

Eric Meyer ISBN: 0-596-00525-3

The Theory of CSS Column Design: Source Order

Big John & Holly http://positioniseverything.net/articles/sourceorder.html

Listamatic I & II, Floatutorial

Max Design http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/

Visual Formatting Model

W3C http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html