body {
font: 12px Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif;
color: #393939;
background:#fbfbfb;
}
ul {
list-style: none;
}
.clearfix {
clear: both;
}
p {
padding: 3px 0 8px;
}
/*-- Header --*/
#header {
background: url(../images/header_bg.png) repeat-x 0 bottom;
height: 170px;
width: 100%;
}
#header #inner_header #twitter_bird {
position: absolute;
right: 83px;
top: 20px;
z-index: 5;
}
#header #inner_header {
background: url(../images/header_starburst.png) no-repeat center;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 50px 0 0;
position: relative;
width: 1000px;
}
#header #inner_header #nav {
color: #000;
margin:10px 0 0 65px;
}
#logo img {
margin-left:70px;
}
#header #inner_header #nav li {
background: url(../images/nav_li_bg.png) no-repeat;
font: 12px Arial, "Helvetica Neue";
float: left;
height: 45px;
margin: 0 5px 0;
padding: 15px 0;
text-align: right; }
#nav li a:hover {
text-decoration:underline; }
#header #inner_header #nav li a {
background: url(../images/nav_item_bg.png) no-repeat right;
color: #4e4e4e;
margin: 0 0 0 5px;
padding: 17px 10px 17px 5px;
text-decoration:none;
}
#header #inner_header #nav li a:hover {
color: #000;
}
/*-- Container --*/
#container {
background: #fff url(../images/container_bg.png) no-repeat;
height: 570px;
margin:-35px auto;
position: relative;
width: 860px;
z-index: -1;
}
#container #inner_container {
padding: 20px 10px;
}
.content {
float: left;
width: 520px; }
#sidebar {
background: url(../images/sidebar_bg.png) repeat-y;
float: right;
margin: -20px 0 0;
position: relative;
width: 250px;
height:448px;
}
#sidebar #inner_sidebar {
padding: 30px 10px 0;
}
#sidebar #sidebar_bottom {
background: url(../images/sidebar_bottom.png) no-repeat;
bottom: -45px;
height: 45px;
position: absolute;
width: 250px;
}
#clearer {
clear:both;
}
#footer {
width:860px;
height:204px;
margin:-215px auto;
background:url('../images/footer.png');
}
<!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" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Twitter Explode</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta name="Author" content="" />
<meta name="Copyright" content="" />
<meta name="Description" content="" />
<meta name="Distribution" content="Global" />
<meta name="Keywords" content="" />
<meta name="Robots" content="index, follow" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./css/main.css" type="text/css" media="screen" charset="utf-8"/>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">
<div id="inner_header">
<img src="./images/twitter_bird.png" alt="Twitter Bird" id="twitter_bird" />
<div id="logo"><img src="./images/logo.png?1" alt="" /></div>
<ul id="nav">
<li><a href="#" class="current">Example</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Example</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Example</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Example</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Example</a></li>
</ul>
</div><!-- /inner_header -->
</div><!-- /header -->
<div class="clearfix"><!-- --></div>
<div id="container">
<div id="inner_container">
<div class="content">
<h3>Example Heading</h3>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.<a href="#">Example</a></p>
<h3>Example Heading</h3>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.<a href="#">Example</a></p>
</div>
<div id="sidebar">
<div id="inner_sidebar">
</div>
<div id="sidebar_bottom"><!-- --></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="clearer"></div>
<div id="footer">
<p>testing</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Ok, I took the easy way out. Usually, I use float’s for my layout, but im trying to learn absolute positioning. I got a problem how do I get my links in the content to behave regulary? It seems that they have lost there full control of behaving like a regular link? What I do wrong?
