Layers, positioning & tables

[donvalley]

I am in the habit of building web pages inside a centred 725px wide table to accomodate different monitor resolutions.
I have recently discovered the magic of layers and positioning relative to the top and left borders of the browser screen.
Can this positioning feature be related to a table border as opposed to the browser? I would like to retain the centred table layout and combine it with layers and positioning relative to the table.
Any thoughts?

[donvalley]

I am in the habit of building web pages inside a centred 725px wide table to accomodate different monitor resolutions.
I have recently discovered the magic of layers and positioning relative to the top and left borders of the browser screen.
Can this positioning feature be related to a table border as opposed to the browser? I would like to retain the centred table layout and combine it with layers and positioning relative to the table.
Any thoughts?

[Mandarin]

If I understand the question correctly this is the answer...

You can safely put tables into layers but if you put a layer into your centred table it will not work.

Hope that helps.

Mike

[donvalley]

Yikes, I seem to have solved the problem. Does it look OK in other browsers?
The secret seems to be not specifying TOP & LEFT
parameters and the layer will default to the TOP & LEFT of the Table cell.

http://www.dvg-scalemodels.com

[pduggan]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by donvalley:
I am in the habit of building web pages inside a centred 725px wide table to accomodate different monitor resolutions...

Any thoughts?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Probably you'll not thank me for this, but IMHO no fixed width, centred table can *accommodate* different monitor resolutions. If filling less and less of the available space at higher resolutions is what you want that's fine, but it's not the same thing!

Peter

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