To understand positioning in CSS you must first understand the box model. For display purposes, every element in a document is considered to be a rectangular box which has a content area surrounded by padding, a border and margins.
Margins are always transparent. Borders come in various styles. Backgroundsettings for an element apply to the the area just inside the borders whichincludes both the padding and content areas. For purposes of illustrationhowever, the padding area is shown in a slightly darker color.
today i rebuilt an existing page because it had lots of broken links, and in doing so taught myself some css table stuff.
yuck.
gotta find a tool/helper for that.
and css still eludes …
sometimes i am just astounded by the thought of entire parallel universes of knowledge that some of us are destined to never once encounter; yet this very same knowledge forms a fundamental part of another person’s life.
for example, metasyntactic variables. huh? exactly.
well, today i learnt all about them.