Sams Teach Yourself CSS 24 in Hours

Chapter 19. Absolute and Fixed Positioning

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• The types of positioning schemes available for placing a display box on the screen

• How to place an HTML element in relation to its containing block

• How to use CSS positioning to create a simple cartoon combining a photograph, text, and graphics

• How to control clipped content that is larger than the size allotted to a display box

• How to create rounded corners for boxes and position them with CSS

• How to designate which items should appear in front or back when content is layered over other content

• How to fix an HTML element on the screen, even if the page scrolls

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Positioning Content

Whenever you include an HTML element on a page, it generates a ...