70006 - Absolute positioning on the fly is not supported

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[DigiDuck]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)
BuildID:    2001021508

Absolute position not supported.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Try to use absolute positioning.

Actual Results:  Please, PLEASE, PLEASE include support for absolute 
positioning.  Absolute positioning (of DIV's in particular) has been 
_absolutely_vital_ to my work.  I _hope_and_pray_ you'll include support for it 
as soon as possible.  Unfortunately, until support for absolute positioning (of 
a div-type object, in particular) is added, I will HAVE to omit support for 
your browser.

Expected Results:  Mozilla should support absolute positioning without delay!  
This should be set very high on the priority list.

Thank you so much for the work you do.  I hope you will include support for 
absolute positioning, especially for DIV's or an equivalent.  Absolute 
positioning (even if only of a DIV-type object) will vastly increase the 
freedom of web design.

Comment 1

[Eric Hodel]

Reporter: I have been using absolute positioning with Mozilla for many months
now.  see - http://segment7.net/mozilla/mozilla.html and its stylesheets -
http://segment7.net/css/

Heck, even try this code:
<div style="position:absolute; width:400px; height:300px; left:300px; top:20px;
background-color:#FF00FF">Bla</div>

Comment 2

[Jano]

" Mozilla should support absolute positioning without delay! "

Yes, mozilla supports absolute positioning, but in a drag and drop script the 
div's repositioning is very, very slow !!

Comment 3

[Christoph Studer]

Verifying wfm. (Win2000, Build ID: 2001022105)

Comment 4

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

VERIFIED WORKSFORME

Comment 5

[DigiDuck]

I should have specified that I meant on_the_fly absolute positioning.  Absolute 
positioning is working fine if the values are specified in the style tag but 
for my purposes I need it to be supported on the fly (like having a div and its 
contents fly around the screen).

Comment 6

[basic]

Reporter if you want some help please submit a testcase.

Comment 7

[Fabian Guisset]

Reporter it would be really nice if you could create a small html file with what
you are trying to do that isn't working (or is very slow) in mozilla? It would
make it much easier for us to understand and fix the problem.
Please attach that testcase using the "Create a new attachment" link above.
Thanks!
sending to layout

Comment 8

[Pierre Saslawsky]

The reporter doesn't answer.
Closed WorksForMe again.