Hi, I'm a bit of a CSS newbie so bear with me please.

I have a header graphic with navigation links. I want to float some more text links over the top right corner of this image. The image uses an image map so I can't use it as background image.

I'm able to place the text where I want in the image, the problem is that it pushes the image down on the page. I want this image to be at the very top of the page and the only way it doesn't move is if I use absolute for the positioning of the text, which I don't want to use.

<div id="topnav"> 
 <div id="links"> 
 <p><a href="#">Home </a>¦ <a href="#">Blog</a></p> 
 </div> 
 <img src="http://www.example.com/image.jpg" width="757" height="74" /></div>

#topnav { 
width: 757px; 
margin-top: 0px; 
margin-right: auto; 
margin-bottom: 0px; 
margin-left: auto; 
} 
#links { 
position: relative; 
top: 20px; 
left: 0px; 
width: auto; 
float: right; 
}

I've experimented with everything I can think of but can't seem to get it how I'd really like it.

Thanks for your time.

Anything will push the image down unless you take it out of the normal flow of the document using a float or absolute positioning.
I am not sure what putting all this over an image map will result in however. You don't want to overlap links with the map hotspots, etc.

Even float isn't going to work in this case, the only way to get it on TOP of what's there is to use position:absolute and a high z-index (like 50). If the container it's going into is set to position:relative, then using absolute for this one thing shouldn't be a big problem.

And if you placed the image on top of the text in the code and floated it?

Then the text would go around it, and under it, and it would stay on top.