Absolute Positioning with DIV in XHTML Transitional doc

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June 18th, 2004, 01:24 PM

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Absolute Positioning with DIV in XHTML Transitional doc

Hello,
I am trying to place a layer on an XHTML transitional page that is 40 pixels from the top and 264 pixels from the left. When I have the DTD tag in place the browser ignores the top and left attributes of my style, but comment it out and it works. Here is the code snippet. Any tips?

Quote:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
#layer1{
position:absolute;
width:200px;
height:115px;
z-index:1;
top: 40;
left: 264;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="Layer1">content</div>
</body>
</html>

June 18th, 2004, 01:55 PM

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XHTML is case sensitive. Layer1 ≠ layer1

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June 18th, 2004, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by kk5st

XHTML is case sensitive. Layer1 ≠ layer1

made no difference in the outcome. Still not positioning the layer where I want it. Thanks.

June 18th, 2004, 02:52 PM

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I just figured it out myself. I noticed that I didn't specify the top and left properties to be in pixels (px), without the DTD the browsers must have assumed pixels allowing for sloppy coding, with the DTD they did not. I changed this to px and it worked. Thanks.

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