Absolute Positioning of text in HTML for Word 2000

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Brian Cowie - 25 Jun 2004 19:00 GMT

I trying to absolutely position text in HTML using CSS position
absolute top/left. The HTML being built will be used for viewing in
both a browser and Word 2000. The text is positioned as expected when
the HTML is viewed in a browser, but not when viewed with Word 2000.
It would appear as though the absolute positioning is ignored by Word.

Does anyone have experiece resolving this problem or any thoughts on
how to resolve this problem?

Thanks in advance.

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Joel Konkle-Parker - 25 Jun 2004 20:14 GMT

>Does anyone have experiece resolving this problem or any thoughts on
>how to resolve this problem?

As much as it pains me to say it, you might need to use a table
instead.

- Joel

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lostinspace - 26 Jun 2004 01:22 GMT

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Cowie" <>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.web.authoring
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 2:00 PM
Subject: Absolute Positioning of text in HTML for Word 2000

> I trying to absolutely position text in HTML using CSS position
> absolute top/left. The HTML being built will be used for viewing in
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>
> Thanks in advance.

1) It seems MSIE uses the content-edge instead of the padding edge.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnie60/html/css
enhancements.asp

2) how about this:

body {margin:0px}
#content { }
#menu {float:left; width:20%; margin-right:5%}

Also note that position:relative positions an element relative to its
normal (i.e. static) position.

3) Try this

<style>

#contact {
position:absolute;
z-index:1;
left:625px;
top:25px;
font-family: Arial, Times, san-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #66CCCC;
}

</style>

<SPAN id="contact" name="contact" >Contact Information</SPAN>

You cannot absolutely position a class, you have to give each element a name
and an id

4) the above were all found in a google groups search on "absolute
positioning IE "

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=absolute+positioning+IE&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sta
rt=10&sa=N

If 1-3 fail to satisy or be effective in Word? Try the other 7,260 threaded
returns.

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