<HTMLPurist Mode>
Never ever never ever ever never never use absolution positioning for anything in HTML. You have no guarentees on screen size and thus, you might be pushing your content off the sides of the screen. You should always use relative positioning or sizing.
</HTMLPurist Mode>

True, the end goal of the poster was not for a page to be published, but just to get down into one page that could be viewed offline, so absolute positioning is not bad. But as advice for those that are considering converting an entire frames-based site to something clean in CSS, this advice very much applies.

That said, I have myself tried creating a CSS-based site that emulated tables using relative sizing (as opposed to absolute). The various bugs at the time between IE 5 and NS 4.x (this about 2 years) made me realize that this will not happen easily unless you stick with a very simple layout. I would suspect that absolute positioning would work like a dream, but again, that's the wrong approach for web publishing.

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In reply to Re: Re: Convert HTML docs with frames into a single HTML doc? by Masem
in thread Convert HTML docs with frames into a single HTML doc? by osfameron

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