This is not a complaint about the book.
I was messing around with the 'position: fixed' keyword as in Chapter 14 on page 404. I'm using plain vanilla IE6 and Visual Web Developer 2005 Express.
On one hand:
In the following line I wanted to specify 'fixed' position in a div as follows:
<style="position:fixed;"
However, as soon as I typed the colon after position, intellisense offered me
only these three choices: absolute, relative, and static. While I typed it in above,
the compiler never actually permitted or accepted the 'fixed' as shown above.
On the other hand:
If I use a link to a css and in the css specify the nav div as follows,
div#nav{position:fixed; right: 0; left:0;}
As soon as I type the colon after position,intellisense offered me five choices:
inherit, absolute, fixed, relative, static.
Complete code here for both cases:
--------------------using code style parameter and not a style sheet------------------
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<div style="position:fixed;">Navbar</div> [[[Does not offer 'fixed']]]
</body>
</html>
[[[Note: the word fixed in the div is flagged as an error ]]]
-----------------using a style sheet----------------------
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<link rel="Stylesheet" href="StyleSheet.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="nav"></div>
</body>
</html>
[[[stylesheet]]]: div#nav {position:fixed;}
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Anyone have an idea why I get 3 choices in one case and 5 in the other?
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Excluding cascade order, up till now I assumed you could put style in the code using the
style="" parameter in the xhtml, or you could use a style sheet. But whichever you used, you had the exact same choices and functionality.
Unless I am making a mistake, you do NOT get the exact same choices and functionality !!!
Anyone set me straight on this??? Thanks.
VV
Position: *fixed* keyord, offered / not offered
