W3Schools. The W3C Markup Validation Service. Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps. 1. position:static The default positioning for all elements is position:static, which means the element is not positioned and occurs where it normally would in the document. Normally you wouldn't specify this unless you needed to override a positioning that had been previously set. 2. position:relative If you specify position:relative, then you can use top or bottom, and left or right to move the element relative to where it would normally occur in the document.
Let's move div-1 down 20 pixels, and to the left 40 pixels: Notice the space where div-1 normally would have been if we had not moved it: now it is an empty space. The next element (div-after) did not move when we moved div-1. It appears that position:relative is not very useful, but it will perform an important task later in this tutorial. 3. position:absolute When you specify position:absolute, the element is removed from the document and placed exactly where you tell it to go. Let's move div-1a to the top right of the page: Footnotes. Smashing Coding. Starting with HTML + CSS. This short tutorial is meant for people who want to start using CSS and have never written a CSS style sheet before.
It does not explain much of CSS. It just explains how to create an HTML file, a CSS file and how to make them work together. After that, you can read any of a number of other tutorials to add more features to the HTML and CSS files. Or you can switch to using a dedicated HTML or CSS editor, that helps you set up complex sites. At the end of the tutorial, you will have made an HTML file that looks like this: The resulting HTML page, with colors and layout, all done with CSS. Note that I don't claim that this is beautiful ☺ Sections that look like this are optional. Step 1: writing the HTML For this tutorial, I suggest you use only the very simplest of tools. Don't use a wordprocessor, such as Microsoft Word or OpenOffice. Step 1 is to open your text editor (Notepad, TextEdit, KEdit, or whatever is your favorite), start with an empty window and type the following: <!
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