Absolute Positioning

**dale_burrell** · Jan 10, 2003 08:59

Using the following doctype means that my absolute positioning doesn't work. So I guess that I'm not doing it correctly. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Cheers.

PHP Code:


<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

<html>

<head>

<title>Astratech</title>

</head>

<body>

<div style="width:800px; position:absolute; left:180; top:17;">HR Management System</div>

<div style="position:absolute; left:10; top:70">Welcome Dale Burrell</div>

<div style="position:absolute; left:720; top:70"><a href="login.asp?Login=false" target="mainFrame">Logout</a></div>

</body>

</html>

**junjun** · Jan 10, 2003 09:06

In strict it's a good idea to follow the standards strictly. When you set a value you need to define what unit the value uses.

Try using left: 180px; etc

**dale_burrell** · Jan 10, 2003 09:20

Originally posted by junjun
In strict it's a good idea to follow the standards strictly. When you set a value you need to define what unit the value uses.

Try using left: 180px; etc

Doh!

And I'd just fixed another problem exactly the same. Thanks.

**Lister14** · Jan 10, 2003 09:32

isn't it weird how sometimes one stares at one's own code but can't see the obvious??

-happens to me all the time!

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