CSS provides six positioning models for positioning an element: static, absolute, fixed, relative, float, and relative float. : position « Layout « HTML / CSS






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CSS provides six positioning models for positioning an element: static, absolute, fixed, relative, float, and relative float.

 


static can position inline, inline-block, block, and table elements. 
absolute and fixed can position any elements. 
float model can position float boxes. 
relative can position any type of box except for absolute boxes. 
relative-float can relatively position float boxes. 


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
.section{
  position: fix;
  width: 600px;
  height: 600px;
  background: gray;
}
* .centered {
  width: 380px;
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
  background: red;
}

* .static {
  position: static;
  background: blue;
}

* .absolute {
  position: absolute;
  top: 20px;
  left: 215px;
  background: yellow
}

* .fixed {
  position: fixed;
  bottom: 20px;
  right: 5px;
  background: gold;
}

* .relative {
  position: relative;
  top: 20px;
  left: 30px;
  background: black;
}

* .float {
  float: right;
  background:pink;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<div class="section">
  <p class="static centered" > 
    <span class="static centered">Static</span> 
    <span class="absolute">Absolute</span> 
    <span class="fixed">Fixed</span> 
    <span class="relative">Relative</span> 
    <span class="float">Float</span> 
    <span class="relative float">Relative Float</span>
  </p>
</div> 

</body>
</html>








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