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**chrisleaven** · 04:06 AM

I am working on a site for my dad and i used fireworks to make out a header graphic with rollover navigation. The graphic is broken down into a table. There is a lot of crazy javascript on this that is hard to make out. The main problem I am having is trying to nest my absolute div's inside a relative positioned container div. My absolute divs do not follow or flow with the container, and when I look at the relative div element on dreamweaver it shows a small box above all my other absolute positioned content. It is not behaving as a parent. Also the div with the id fwheader is not centering. Dont know what to do, appreciate any help! Thanks!!

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<!-- saved from url=(0014)about:internet -->
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Triple-A Home Maintenence & Repair</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
[B]<style type="text/css">
td img {display: block;}[/B]
[B]#container.div {
position:relative;
margin:auto;
height:auto;
width:auto;
}[/B]
[B]#fwheader {
 position:absolute;
 margin: auto;
 left: 26px;
}[/B]

[B]#bodyRegion {
 position:absolute;
 width:695px;
 height:539px;
 top: 414px;
 left: 286px;
 background-color: #0033CC;
}[/B]
</style>
</head>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0
  var i,x,a=document.MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a.length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++) x.src=x.oSrc;
}
function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
  var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
    var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++)
    if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}}
}
function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.01
  var p,i,x;  if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) {
    d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);}
  if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n];
  for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document);
  if(!x && d.getElementById) x=d.getElementById(n); return x;
}
function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0
  var i,j=0,x,a=MM_swapImage.arguments; document.MM_sr=new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.length-2);i+=3)
   if ((x=MM_findObj(a[i]))!=null){document.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];}
}
//-->
</script>
<body onLoad="MM_preloadImages('images/reviews_f2.jpg','images/services_f2.jpg','images/contact_f2.jpg','images/home_f2.jpg')">
[B]<div id="container">[/B]
[B]  <div id="fwheader">[/B]
    <!-- Adobe fireworks rendered header image -->
    <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="900">
      <tr>
        <td><img src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/spacer.gif" width="384" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
        <td><img src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/spacer.gif" width="53" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
        <td><img src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/spacer.gif" width="40" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
        <td><img src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/spacer.gif" width="77" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
        <td><img src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/spacer.gif" width="40" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
        <td><img src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/spacer.gif" width="89" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
        <td><img src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/spacer.gif" width="38" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
        <td><img src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/spacer.gif" width="104" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
        <td><img src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/spacer.gif" width="75" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
        <td><img src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="9"><img name="tripleaheader_r1_c1" src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/triple%20a%20header_r1_c1.jpg" width="900" height="196" border="0" id="tripleaheader_r1_c1" alt="" /></td>
        <td><img src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="196" border="0" alt="" /></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="5"><img name="tripleaheader_r2_c1" src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/triple%20a%20header_r2_c1.jpg" width="594" height="8" border="0" id="tripleaheader_r2_c1" alt="" /></td>
        <td rowspan="4"><a href="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/reviews.htm" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('reviews','','images/reviews_f2.jpg',1);"><img name="reviews" src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/reviews.jpg" width="89" height="37" border="0" id="reviews" alt="" /></a></td>
        <td colspan="3"><img name="tripleaheader_r2_c7" src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/triple%20a%20header_r2_c7.jpg" width="217" height="8" border="0" id="tripleaheader_r2_c7" alt="" /></td>
        <td><img src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="8" border="0" alt="" /></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="3"><img name="tripleaheader_r3_c1" src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/triple%20a%20header_r3_c1.jpg" width="477" height="2" border="0" id="tripleaheader_r3_c1" alt="" /></td>
        <td rowspan="2"><a href="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/services.htm" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('services','','images/services_f2.jpg',1);"><img name="services" src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/services.jpg" width="77" height="19" border="0" id="services" alt="" /></a></td>
        <td rowspan="4"><img name="tripleaheader_r3_c5" src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/triple%20a%20header_r3_c5.jpg" width="40" height="196" border="0" id="tripleaheader_r3_c5" alt="" /></td>
        <td rowspan="4"><img name="tripleaheader_r3_c7" src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/triple%20a%20header_r3_c7.jpg" width="38" height="196" border="0" id="tripleaheader_r3_c7" alt="" /></td>
        <td rowspan="2"><a href="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/contact.htm" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('contact','','images/contact_f2.jpg',1);"><img name="contact" src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/contact.jpg" width="104" height="19" border="0" id="contact" alt="" /></a></td>
        <td rowspan="4"><img name="tripleaheader_r3_c9" src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/triple%20a%20header_r3_c9.jpg" width="75" height="196" border="0" id="tripleaheader_r3_c9" alt="" /></td>
        <td><img src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="2" border="0" alt="" /></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td rowspan="3"><img name="tripleaheader_r4_c1" src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/triple%20a%20header_r4_c1.jpg" width="384" height="194" border="0" id="tripleaheader_r4_c1" alt="" /></td>
        <td><a href="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/index.htm" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('home','','images/home_f2.jpg',1);"><img name="home" src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/home.jpg" width="53" height="17" border="0" id="home" alt="" /></a></td>
        <td rowspan="3"><img name="tripleaheader_r4_c3" src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/triple%20a%20header_r4_c3.jpg" width="40" height="194" border="0" id="tripleaheader_r4_c3" alt="" /></td>
        <td><img src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="17" border="0" alt="" /></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td rowspan="2"><img name="tripleaheader_r5_c2" src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/triple%20a%20header_r5_c2.jpg" width="53" height="177" border="0" id="tripleaheader_r5_c2" alt="" /></td>
        <td rowspan="2"><img name="tripleaheader_r5_c4" src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/triple%20a%20header_r5_c4.jpg" width="77" height="177" border="0" id="tripleaheader_r5_c4" alt="" /></td>
        <td rowspan="2"><img name="tripleaheader_r5_c8" src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/triple%20a%20header_r5_c8.jpg" width="104" height="177" border="0" id="tripleaheader_r5_c8" alt="" /></td>
        <td><img src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="10" border="0" alt="" /></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><img name="tripleaheader_r6_c6" src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/triple%20a%20header_r6_c6.jpg" width="89" height="167" border="0" id="tripleaheader_r6_c6" alt="" /></td>
        <td><img src="http://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="167" border="0" alt="" /></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
<!--end header image  -->
[B]</div>
<div id="bodyRegion"></div>    
</div>[/B]
</body>
</head>

**whatsherface_21** · 12-19-2009, 01:26 AM

Wow...now THAT'S a header. lol

Not sure what you're up to there but ideally your entire header should look more like:

<div id="header">logo, title & possibly a header image here</div>

It currently appears painfully and unnecessarily complex (and, I gather, not working).

Cool that you're good enough to throw something together for your dad, but I can only advise scrapping it and starting from scratch.

**chrishirst** · 12-19-2009, 04:08 AM

absolutely positioned elements do exactly that.

They are not part of the document flow.

Get rid of the absolute positioning!