gueschla.com/2007/04/19/le-positionnement-css-explique-en-detail

post 09 of 32 · 19 April 2007 · written in French

CSS positioning explained in detail

Le positionnement CSS expliqué en détail !

A pointer to Tommy Olsson's beginner-friendly article on CSS positioning in Digital Web Magazine, which covers containing blocks, the viewport and how absolute positioning takes an element out of the document flow. The post quotes a short passage from it.

le-positionnement-css-explique-en-detail.fr19 April 2007 · 16:19

Tommy Olsson vient de publier sur Digital Web un article très pédagogique sur le positionnement CSS, qui s’adresse aux débutants, mais aussi aux autres. Il passe tout le sujet en revue de manière très détaillée, en abordant entres autres les notions de containing block, viewport, etc …

An element with position:absolute is removed from the document flow, which means the rest of the document acts as if the element weren’t there. It won’t affect subsequent elements. Instead, it could end up layered over other elements, unless we make sure it doesn’t.

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Original French text from Internet Archive captures of gueschla.com. Light typo fixes only. Links to outside sites are shown as plain text, because most of those 2007 addresses no longer lead where they did.