Using Position Relative Absolute within a TD

Question

I have the following code    lt td style  position  relative  min-height  60px  vertical-align  top   gt      Contents of table cell  variable height  could be more than 60px        lt div style  position  absolute  bottom  0px   gt          Notice      lt  div gt   lt  td gt    This does not work at all  For some reason  the position relative command isn t being read on the TD and the notice DIV is being placed outside of the content container at the bottom of my page  I have tried to put all the contents of the TD into a DIV such as    lt td gt       lt div style  position  relative  min-height  60px  vertical-align  top   gt          Contents of table cell  variable height  could be more than 60px            lt div style  position  absolute  bottom  0px   gt              Notice          lt  div gt       lt  div gt   lt  td gt    However  this creates a new problem  Since the height of the contents of the table cell is variable  the notice DIV isn t always at the bottom of the cell  If a table cell stretches beyond the 60px marker  but none of the other cells do  then in the other cells  the notice DIV is at 60px down  instead of at the bottom

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This trick also suitable  but in this case align properties  middle  bottom etc   won t be working    lt td style  display  block  position  relative   gt   lt  td gt

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also works if you do a  display  block   on the td  destroying the td identity  but works

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Contents of table cell  variable height  could be more than 60px    lt div style  position  absolute  bottom  0px   gt      Notice  lt  div gt

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With regards to your second attempt  did you try using vertical align   Either   lt td valign  bottom  gt    or with css  vertical-align bottom

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This is because according to CSS 2 1  the effect of position  relative on table elements is undefined  Illustrative of this  position  relative has the desired effect on Chrome 13  but not on Firefox 4  Your solution here is to add a div around your content and put the position  relative on that div instead of the td   The following illustrates the results you get with the position  relative  1  on a div good    2  on a td no good   and finally  3  on a div inside a td  good again       x000D   x000D   lt table gt  x000D     lt tr gt  x000D       lt td gt  x000D         lt div style  position relative   gt  x000D           lt span style  position absolute  left 150px   gt  x000D            Absolute span x000D           lt  span gt  x000D          Relative div x000D         lt  div gt  x000D       lt  td gt  x000D     lt  tr gt  x000D   lt  table gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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