loop + css problem

gotissues68

Howdy,
I hope someone can be of assistance. Here's the situation:
PHP loops to print out a series of articles from a database which works out great. The problem I'm running into is with the CSS formatting part of it. If I use position:absolute to frame the looped through data it scrunches it up and you're only able to see the very last post. I've tried various iterations of position including fixed, relative and so forth and no of them seem to capture what it is I want. Anyone have any ideas?

For ref here's the page:

http://www.techiekb.com/index2.php
and the css file
http://www.techiekb.com/test/layout.css

TIA
Drew

sarahk

so... you've fixed it or you've given up?

gotissues68

I haven't given up! I'm still trying different styles to make the loop show up correctly (that might not be the best way to term it) but I just thought I'd toss it out there and see if anyone had any ideas...

Shrike

fixed in CSS means that each element does not sit in relation to the others, so they can sit on top of each other, and be positioned using the 'top' and 'left' CSS functions. Relative means the oppiste, they are positioned according the element above/ to the left.

gotissues68

Thanks Shrike, I have the Oreilly CSS book and it isn't explained in so few words 😉. I guess the question I'm asking then is this:

Since I'm looping through a database and brining up queries (in this case 5), and using CSS for formatting, how could I, without losing the current format of the page itself, allow all 5 elements pulled from the database to be displayed one on top of the other ? I know this isn't completely PHP specific and I apologize for that, but I do appreciate the input.

gotissues68

After chewing on what shrike said for a moment and then going back to the trusty CSS book, I used the relative attribute to position: and defined width: and left: elements and its all good now 🙂 Thanks for everyone who took time to look.