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Image positioning
The attached image shows a white content area with top horizontal menu, over layed on a decorative background, with black header and footer. A min-height is set for the white content area, but the height will vary depending on content and when it does it correctly pushes the footer down.
My question is how can I position the decorative image that I've circled in red? If I place the image tag in the footer and use css relative positioning it will work except that the presence of the image tag conflicts with other content in the footer, ie it changes the positions of other elements in the footer even though it moves. Is jquery helpful here or is it just css?
footer-image.jpg
My question is how can I position the decorative image that I've circled in red? If I place the image tag in the footer and use css relative positioning it will work except that the presence of the image tag conflicts with other content in the footer, ie it changes the positions of other elements in the footer even though it moves. Is jquery helpful here or is it just css?
footer-image.jpg
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The white content area is repositioned by -33px using relative positioning so that it overlaps the black header. The repositioning correctly leaves a gap between the bottom of the content area and the black footer which is filled by the decorative background. If I set the decorative image (let's call it the leaves) as the footer background then I can only position it within the bounds of the footer div, whereas it needs to go to a negative y-position.
absolute position it, show us your mark-up and css and I am sure it can be explained - without seeing the code I can't suggest where it goes in the mark up (in a relatively positioned footer or relatively positioned content area) either way absolute positioning will not affect your other footer contents.
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The fundamental problem is that when the image is loaded it has a foot print, and when it is moved by absolute or relative positioning the footprint remains. It must be possible to avoid leaving the footprint as dynamic slideout or dropdown menus work ok.
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I solved it by wrapping the image in an absolute positioned div and wrapping that in a relative positioned div with top and left settings.
mmm I believe the OP has followed my advice and used absolute positioning within a relative container - without seeing the mark-up and existing div structure (I did ask to see it) no one could possibly give any more specific advice or code than that.
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I am not going to object beyond this, I just thought that without any code to see then the best advice anyone could be expected to give was to absolute position it and this would naturally have to happen within a relatively positioned container, as I eluded to in my qualification of the advice " (in a relatively positioned footer or relatively positioned content area)" - anyway glad you got it sorted.
With it being for decorative purposes it should be placed as a background anyway.
It will not affect surrounding text and will always be in the correct spot on the footer.