Why is it that whenever I use absolute positioning the appearence is different depending on whether I view the page through an editor (Dreamweaver/Fronpage etc) or the browser? ie the position of the positioned element is different.
Also I have a user who is apparently seeing the positioned element in the same position I see it when viewed through my browser (thier browser is IE5). I dont see how that is possible. Can anyone help?
Kat, Somehow when I posted that I kinda knew you would be the one to answer, thanks. I screwed up in the first post ie
quote: Also I have a user who is apparently seeing the positioned element in the same position I see it when viewed through my browser editor (thier browser is IE5). I dont see how that is possible.
ie I expected everyone to see the same thing I see with my browser (and the 3/4 others I have tested on), but this user says they don't. I just got a screen dump of thier machine and they are right, the position of the positioned element is totally different( and starangely the same as in DW).
I have read somewhere this morning (can't remember where - I have looked at too many pages) that IE5.5 does not support negative dimentions correctly for Absolutely Positioned elements. Since the user with the weird display has IE 5.0 it seems reasonable to assume it has the same problem with negative dims as IE5.5. However if its true I am surprised I have never come accross the problem before.
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Posted - 23 May 2002 : 11:35:40
