trying making the white block position:relative
Whoa! That is weird. But it works!
Thanks all. I'm sure I'll have more questions in the days ahead.
But she was naked! And all... articulate!
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Jon B. - Jan 11, 2006 9:26:38 am PST #6488 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
amych - Jan 11, 2006 9:30:25 am PST #6489 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Whoa! That is weird. But it works!
It sounds utterly backwards, and it doesn't resemble any definition of "absolute" I've ever seen in the real world, and the box model as a whole is overly complex and prone to cross-browser bugs, but for this case, the key thing to remember is that absolute elements are positioned relative to the next highest thing that has a position, not the next highest thing in the hierarchy, period -- which means that for your original stylesheet, they were looking up to the whole page and not the containing div.
Why, yes, I learned all this from painful experience.
Amy - Jan 11, 2006 9:42:19 am PST #6490 of 10003
Because books.
Thanks, everyone. I'll just keep using the laptop plugged in for the time being.
New question: I'm doing promo postcards for a mailing for my new book, using a place on the web. I uploaded the jpg of my cover just fine, but they want either a tif, pdf, eps, ai, or pub doc (or jpg, I guess) for the text for the back. Any help for doing this? I created a file in Word, but it won't let me save it as any of those file types.
t /so technologically challenged it's sad
le nubian - Jan 11, 2006 9:46:23 am PST #6491 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
hmm. you could take a screenshot and then photoshop out all the areas except the text you want.
Amy - Jan 11, 2006 9:48:18 am PST #6492 of 10003
Because books.
Except...I don't have PhotoShop, and I don't know how to take a screenshot.
::hangs head::
Jon B. - Jan 11, 2006 9:49:05 am PST #6493 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
AmyLiz -- if you send me the Word Doc, I can make a PDF and email it back to you. Profile addy is fine.
Dana - Jan 11, 2006 9:49:14 am PST #6494 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Amy, if you send it to me, I can save it as a psd (and probably a tif) and send it back.
Edit: beaten!
amych - Jan 11, 2006 9:49:36 am PST #6495 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
AmyLiz, do you mean that they want your text in pdf form rather than word, or that they actually want a picture of the cover blurb (complete with layout, etc?)
Either way, you can send it to my profile addy, if you want. As long as I can suss out what it is they're actually looking for....
amych - Jan 11, 2006 9:50:15 am PST #6496 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
xposted with many other offers....
Amy - Jan 11, 2006 9:53:03 am PST #6497 of 10003
Because books.
Thanks! I will take Jon B. up on it since he was so fast on the trigger keyboard.
Buffistas rock. But you know that.