Hi all,

Here's the markup:

<span id = "Sum" class = "foodlabel" style = "background:gold; color:black; font:12px tahoma; border-left: 1px solid black; border-right:1px solid black;">

    <button name = "addFills" onclick = "addFills(document.getElementById('iBloom'), document.getElementById('iBap'), document.getElementById('iPan'), document.getElementById('iBag'), document.getElementById('imgRoll'))">Add Fillings</button>

</span>

This was working fine until I added the following markup:

<form name = "hiddenForm" style = "position:absolute; padding:1; margin-left:1; left:219px; top:50px">
                        <select name = "bloomSelect">
                        <option value = 0 selected>Please make a selection
                                <option value = 1>Cheese
                                <option value = 2>Cheese & Ham
                                <option value = 3>Cheese & Tomato
                                <option value = 4>Cheese & Bacon
                                <option value = 5>Bacon & Tomato
                                <option value = 6>Ham & Tomato
                                <option value = 7>Ham & Brie
                                <option value = 8>Tuna Mayonnaise
                                <option value = 9>Tuna Melt
                                <option value = 10>Chicken Bacon & Sweetcorn
                                <option value = 11>Tuna Cheese & Sweetcorn
                                <option value = 12>Speciality Fillings
                        </option>
                        </select>
</form>

What happened next was that sometimes when the page was reloaded either one or both of the above elements disappear and reappear every so often (usually every two or three reloads). Is there something in my markup thats causing it or is there a bug?

Cheers
Joe

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Your code: seems to have some misinformation in it. Why do you have margin-left, left, and top?

According to all of my CSS books, "left" and "top" are not correct. They should be either "padding-left" and "padding-top" or "margin-left" and "margin-top".

I don't know how far that will get you, but it's just something I noticed right off. Good luck!

HollyAnn
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Hi HollyAnn,

The 'left' attribute says this:

Position the left hand edge of the element x amount of pixels (or whatever measurement you choose) from the left hand edge of the screen (absolute positioning, HTML and CSS gurus feel free to jump in here). This is the same for Top, Right and Bottom. As far as I was aware there shouldn't be a problem using these attributes inside a Form's style attribute. But you're probably right that I shouldn't use margin-left alongside left. I was under the impression that margin-left set the amount of pixels between the left hand edge of the element and its nearest element to the left? So I was trying to say:

Put my element 219px from the left edge of the screen and keep a 1px margin between my element's left edge and its closest element to the left. Am I doing this wrong?

Thanks for your help.

You're missing units of measurement here:
position:absolute; padding:1; margin-left:1; left:219px; top:50px

padding: 1, works in IE, but doesn't work in any other browser becuase the standard says that a unit is required. So that should be padding: 1px;, margin-left: 1; should also be margin-left: 1px;

Do you have a link to a live, functioning document? It sounds like the peek-a-boo bug, but I can't say for sure without actually seeing it.

I'm also quite sure that markup doesn't validate. Run it through http://validator.w3.org and fix any errors it complains about.

There are loads of IE rendering bugs documented at http://www.positioniseverything.net and http://www.quirksmode.org

HTH!

Regards,
Rich

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HollyAnn, "left" and "top" are offset properties, which typically accompany positioned (layered) content. Read more about them here:

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#position-props

top, right, bottom, and left are applied from the outside margin edge of a positioned element (an element with relative, absolute, or fixed position, as opposed to static). You can actually use either margin or the offset properties or any combination thereof to adjust an element's position.

Regards,
Rich

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