The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
—Piet Mondrian
The full promise of style sheets is finally coming to fruition. While Opera and Internet Explorer have each had some support for CSS positioning over the past several years, Netscape was slow to the plate, providing only certain aspects of position within its version 4 browsers. However, all new releases of popular web browsers have good support for positioning in general.
This means that you can turn to style sheets for more than just styling text. We can begin to look at the true separation of presentation and document formatting in the context of CSS layout.
In this chapter you’ll learn:
How to position elements using absolute positioning
How to position elements using relative positioning
How to float elements
How to design layouts with positioning
Workarounds for display of layouts