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Difference absolute versus relative in CSS Positioning

In this article, we explore some ways to work with CSS to enhance the way you interact with the HTML of your page. Read on for more!

The CSS position property defines, as the name says, how the element is positioned on the web page.

If you are interested in reading about the font properties, articles about the relative font size and CSS columns might be of interest.

So, there are several types of positioning: static, relative, absolute, fixed, sticky, initial, and inherit. First of all, let’s explain what all of these types mean.

Static - this is the default value, all elements are in order as they appear in the document.
Relative - the element is positioned relative to its normal position.
Absolute - the element is positioned absolutely to its first positioned parent.
Fixed - the element is positioned related to the browser window.
Sticky - the element is positioned based on the user’s scroll position.

Now that we have explained the basics, we will talk more about the two most commonly used position values - relative and absolute.

What Is Relative Positioning?

When you set the position relative to an element, without adding any other positioning attributes (top, bottom, right, left) nothing will happen. When you add an additional position, such as left: 20px the element will move 20px to the right from its normal position. Here, you can see that this element is relative to itself. When the element moves, no other element on the layout will be affected.

There is a thing you should keep in mind while setting position - relative to an element limits the scope of absolutely positioned child elements. This means that any element that is the child of this element can be absolutely positioned within this block.

After this brief explanation, we need to back it up, by showing an example.

In this example, you will see how the relatively positioned element moves when its attributes are changed. The first element moves to the left and top from its normal position, while the second element stays in the same place because none of the additional positioning attributes were changed.

HTML

<div id="first_element">First element</div> 
<div id="second_element">Second element</div>

CSS

#first_element { 
  position: relative; 
  left: 30px; 
  top: 70px; 
  width: 500px; 
  background-color: #fafafa; 
  border: solid 3px #ff7347; 
  font-size: 24px; 
  text-align: center; 
} 

#second_element { 
  position: relative; 
  width: 500px; 
  background-color: #fafafa; 
  border: solid 3px #ff7347; 
  font-size: 24px; 
  text-align: center; 
}

What Is Absolute Positioning?

This type of positioning allows you to place your element precisely where you want it.

The positioning is done relative to the first relatively (or absolutely) positioned parent element. In the case when there is no positioned parent element, it will be positioned related directly to the HTML element (the page itself).

An important thing to keep in mind while using absolute positioning is to make sure it is not overused, otherwise, it can lead to a maintenance nightmare.

The next thing, yet again, is to show an example.

In the example, the parent element has the position set to relative. Now, when you set the position of the child element to absolute, any additional positioning will be done relative to the parent element. The child element moves relative to the top of the parent element by 100px and right of the parent element by 40px.

HTML

<div id=”parent”>
  <div id=”child”></div>
</div>

CSS

#parent { 
  position: relative; 
  width: 500px; 
  height: 400px; 
  background-color: #fafafa; 
  border: solid 3px #9e70ba; 
  font-size: 24px; 
  text-align: center; 
} 

#child { 
  position: absolute; 
  right: 40px; 
  top: 100px; 
  width: 200px; 
  height: 200px; 
  background-color: #fafafa; 
  border: solid 3px #78e382; 
  font-size: 24px; 
  text-align: center; 
}

Through these examples, you have seen differences between absolutely and relatively positioned elements.

We hope this article clarified some doubts and will help in any future projects.

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CSS Alignment Made Simple

CSS is seen as an impediment in web development for many of us. Most of the time it looks like even when you follow the rules and everything seems clear, it still doesn’t work the way you want it to.

Therefore, the purpose of this article is to make some features of CSS much easier to understand.

The thing I want to address now is the alignment of the elements.

Without further ado, here are some of the most common scenarios one might encounter when it comes to this topic and how they can be approached.

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Position Layout property in CSS

Hello, World! In this article, we will try to grasp the concepts of one of the trickiest and crucial topics in CSS.

Position layout property in CSS is solely used to place and position elements respectively in an HTML document. They assign respective positions to HTML elements so that the overall design of our page is maintained and managed well.

The widely used positions property in CSS are as follows:

1. Static position:

When an HTML element gets assigned with

staticposition, the various position properties likeleft,right,topandbottomdoesn’t work. Elements in an HTML document carry static position by default.

Let’s copy and paste the code below in an IDE to view what’s happening.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <style>
      #Section {
        height: 200vh;
        width: 800px;
        border: 5px solid blue;
        background-color: cyan;
        font-family: monospace;
        font-size: 2rem;
        text-align: center; 
      }

      #Div1, #Div2, #Div3 {
        border: 4px solid red;
        font-size: 1.5rem;
        width: 200px;
        height: 100px;
        text-align: center;
        display: inline-block;
      }

      #Div2 {
        position: static;
        left: 20px;
        top: 50px;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <section id="Section">
      <p>This is Section</p>
      <div id="Div1">
        <p>This is Div 1</p>
      </div>
      <div id="Div2">
        <p>This is Div 2</p>
      </div>
      <div id="Div3">
        <p>This is Div 3</p>
      </div>
    <section>
  </body>
</html>

Upon adding position property

staticto the selector idDiv2, we saw that the position ofDiv2box didn’t change. Hence, we can conclude that elements with positionstaticdoesn’t get affected byleft, right,toporbottomproperties.

2. Relative position:

When an element gets assigned with position

relative, the position properties likeleft,right,top andbottomaffects the element’s position in the page relative to its normal position asstatic.

Let’s copy and paste the code below to

Div2selector to replace the previous position property.

#Div2 {
        position: relative;
        left: 20px;
        top: 50px;
      }

We can see that the

Div2box changed its position relative to its normal orstaticposition, i.e.20pxfrom theleftand50pxfrom thetop. Upon applyingrelativeposition property to an element, other contents in the same box won’t get affected and change positions

3. Fixed position:

This position property is used to freeze an element in a particular location of the page so that scrolling doesn’t affect the visibility or location of the element. When we apply

fixedvalue to a selector, it gets removed from the flow of the HTML document, i.e. the selector element gets uprooted from its actual position, becomes relative to the entire viewport, and doesn’t get scrolled.

Let’s copy and paste the code below to know the difference.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <style>
      #Section {
        height: 400vh;
        width: 800px;
        border: 5px solid blue;
        background-color: cyan;
        font-family: monospace;
        font-size: 2rem;
        text-align: center; 
      }
      #Div1, #Div2, #Div3 {
        border: 4px solid red;
        font-size: 1.5rem;
        width: 200px;
        height: 100px;
        text-align: center;
        display: inline-block;
      }
      #Div2 {
        position: fixed;
        left: 0;
        top: 0;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <section id="Section">
      <p>This is Section</p>
      <div id="Div1">
        <p>This is Div 1</p>
      </div>
      <div id="Div2">
        <p>This is Div 2</p>
      </div>
      <div id="Div3">
        <p>This is Div 3</p>
      </div>
    <section>
  </body>
</html>

After scrolling, we can see that the id

Div2gets fixed in the topmost corner of the document.

4. Absolute position:

Just like

fixedposition, theabsoluteposition property removes selectors from the flow. As the element gets removed from its normal position, the parent element doesn’t regard it as its child anymore. The element becomes relative to the document.

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Creating a CSS Visual Cheatsheet

The other day one of our students asked about possibility of having a CSS cheatsheet to help to decide on the best suited approach when doing this or that layout.

This evolved into the idea of making a visual CSS cheatsheet with all (most) of the common patterns we see everyday and one of the best possible conceptual implementation for them.

In the end any layout could and should be split into parts/blocks and we see every block separately.

Here is our first take on that and we would be happy to keep extending it to help us all.

Please, send you suggestions in the comments in community or via gitlab for the repeated CSS patterns with your favourite implementation for that so that we will all together make this as useful as it can be.

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