But, by using the placement properties you can move the element around. We will need to use the placement properties to change how the element is positioned relative to its original position.īasically when you set a HTML element to position: relative, it will remain in the flow of the layout. By setting an element to just have position: relative nothing will happen. Relative position means that an element is positioned relative to its original position in the normal flow. Let’s look at the first value that does affect the position of an element in the flow of the document. See the Pen by on CodePen.ĭid you see that even though we have used the position property and the placement values that it has no effect on the element? You now know that the static value is the default and that the placement values do not affect elements with position: static. Let’s look at an example to see that position static has no effect on the element with this property.īelow is the result of the changes we have made. An example of when you might want to do this is when you want to override a position value you have set elsewhere. It can often be useful to set the position property to static even though it is the default value. The placement properties top, left, bottom and right do not affect an element that has position: static. That is the elements on the page appear in the order expected by normal flow. Static positioning is the default value for the position property. Position Property Values Static Positioning
When we look at the position values below and the examples it will become more clear how these work. There are four main properties to do just that.Įach of these properties define how much the element's position should be adjusted from its default and in which direction it should be adjusted. We need to use the placement properties (just what I call them not the official name) to tell the document exactly where the element should be placed. Placement Propertiesīy itself the position property doesn’t do much. We are going to cover all 5 of these values, but before we do we need to understand the placement properties and how they affect positioning. The position property has five options available. We can use it to determine how we want to position individual elements based on the values you give the position property. The CSS position property sets how an element is positioned in a document. Let's see what the position property does. The default layout of elements in this way is called the normal flow of a document, but CSS offers us a powerful tool in the position property to override the normal flow. Block-level items (things like headings, paragraphs or divs) by default start on a new line while inline items (images or spans) sit within the surrounding content on the same line. Now, CSS treats each HTML element as its own box, you might have heard of this referred to as the box model. Basically the flow is the set of all elements on your page working together and each one knows about all the others. It is the way elements are displayed on a page by default. The way elements are positioned on a page is called the normal flow, or flow layout. To understand the position property and the values associated we first need to make sure we understand how elements are positioned on a webpage. You are going to learn how each of the values of the CSS position properties work, so you can get really good at CSS. In this article, I am going to try and save you the pain of not knowing what you are doing with the position property. But, most of the time it was just garbage and it had me pulling what little hair I have left out.
In building my Developer portfolio I found I didn’t really understand the CSS position property, I just randomly tried different combinations of positions together until I got something I was kind of happy with. However, it can be one of the more frustrating experiences for a beginner. Developing an understanding of the CSS position property is important if you want to become really good at CSS.
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