Text disappears behind picture

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I'm trying to place text below a graphic placed using absolute positioning
but the text always winds up behind the picture. If I turn absolute
positioning off, then the text does follow the graphic, but a) it is too
close and b) the graphic won't stay exactly where I want it, particularly in
different browsers/versions.

Seems there should be some combination of wrapping and positioning that
would make this happen, but so far I haven't figured it out. I see some
recommend using Tables, but that does seem overkill, and Tables have other
complications when mixed with frames and columns.

I'm quite happy digging around in the HTML if necessary, but I'm not sure
what to change. Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,
Ed
(FrontPage 2000, Win2000)
 
For a number of reasons, you should not use Absolute
Positioning. If you want to know why, view the many
responses on this newsgroup that deal with the question
of "why does stuff move around when my site is published
and viewed on other computers."

You have two better approaches to this problem.

1. use the properties in the Pictures properties dialog,
or if that doesn't give you the flexibility you require
2. use tables and nested tables to organize your pictures
and your text so that you achieve the desired result.
 
Thanks for the reply. Two followup questions:

1) Can you give me an idea of settings for the picture properties? The ones
I tried seemed to produce inconsistent results -- I'm wondering of the pic
properties aren't conflicting with the page properties, frame properties, etc.

2) Are tables truly universal (as it gets in web design anyway) i.e.,
reliable across platforms and browsers?

Ed
 
Select the image, then right click and select image/picture properties, then the appearance tab.

Tables are supported in all graphical browsers across platforms.

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Hi,

I have been having lots of fun and games with positioning text and images.
The most recent thread was named "Centralising an Image in a new window".
Murray has been a great help.

While there were lots of other problems I faced along the way, what seemed
to resolve the text disappearing was putting it in a new <div>. This may
not be needed for what you are doing, but I just mention it as something to
try. I did not use any tables.
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