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Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
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Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

by Jennifer Robbins
February 2006
Intermediate to advanced
826 pages
63h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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The position property identifies that an element is to be positioned and selects one of four positioning methods (each will be discussed in detail in upcoming sections in this chapter):

static

This is the normal positioning scheme in which element boxes are rendered in order as they appear in the document flow.

relative

Relative positioning moves the element box, but its original space in the document flow is preserved.

absolute

Absolutely positioned objects are completely removed from the document flow and are positioned relative to their containing block (discussed in the next section). Because they are removed from the document flow, they no longer influence the layout of surrounding elements, and the space they once occupied is closed up. Absolutely positioned elements always take on block behaviors.

fixed

Fixed positioning is like absolute positioning (the element is removed from the document flow), but instead of a containing element, it is positioned relative to the viewport (in most cases, the browser window).

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