Re: Absolute Positioning without DIV

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From: Michel Leunen
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:05

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Mark Jacobs wrote:
> "Colin B Maharaj" <noreply@myhost.com> wrote in message 
> news:44308352@newsgroups.borland.com...
>> Hi all, this is a Javascript question by the way. :)
>> I hope someone can help.
>>
>> I would like to place either a Web Control or text
>> in an absolute position...
>> This is how I currently do it.....
>>
>> <div style="position:absolute; left:50px; top:300px">
>> Caption Text
>> </div>
>>
>> This works, but can I do this without a DIV???
> 
> Did you try SPAN instead of DIV?

It should work with all block tags. For instance this also works:

<p style="position:absolute; left:50px; top:300px">Caption Text</p>

Michel
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