BLAH....more positioning troubles...

[tempus]

I think i'm just overlooking something really basic, but heres the idea: I want the sub navigation of www.bluevolume.com/dallasent/index1.htm to be on the left side, and the text on the right side next to it with 15px padding between the text and everything else. As you can see, the text covers the sub navigation. The CSS is contained within the HTML file. A side issue is also getting the hover effect to work on the sub naigation bar.....

[Indicator]

Have you tried adding a margin to the content area that is equal to +15px of the navbar?

[tempus]

if you mean the text area, I did. But I don't want to add any margin to the content area, it needs to be up against the borders.

[BenANFA]

Instead of positioning your subnav bar absolutely try floating it on the left.

[tempus]

I don't think it has to do with the subnav bar at all, because I specified 565px for the width of the text, and it is not contained in that width.

[BenANFA]

Although this is not the way I would layout your page (you can achieve the same result without all the absolute positioning) your actual problem is that in the #text CSS rule you have specified the width as follows

width: 565x;

You have left the p out of px

width: 565px;

[tempus]

LOL.....I can't believe I did that! Now that I kow what I messed up i'll try some other methods. Thanks for the help!

[BenANFA]

Non problem It is always worth validating your CSS (and your HTML) at the W3C's website.CSS Validator

[tempus]

I clicked to download it, but I couldn't find the file on the page. Can you give me a direct link to the file, or tell me how to use the CVS thing?

[BenANFA]

TBH I useually use one of these links from the original page rather than downloading the validator to my machine,

Validate your cascading style sheet by URI
Validate your cascading style sheet with a text area
Validate your cascading style sheet source file by upload

Just seems easier.