Content Positioning
In the previous section, you saw how you could use JavaScript to assign values to style characteristics and dynamically format your document. One class of style characteristics was deliberately left out of the section, however: those for specifying content position. Content positioning is a much different activity than assigning styles, and you can bring many more JavaScript commands to bear on a content-positioning challenge. This section looks at how you can do content positioning with Netscape Navigator 4, using both the nonstandard <layer> element as well as CSS techniques.
The <layer> and <ilayer> Elements
Chapter 24 showed you some examples of content positioning. Specifically, you saw how you could position an element ...
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