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> I'm taking the liberty of reposting the query I posted five days
> ago. I hope that it just got overlooked because it was in the middle
> of a thread.
>
> Sample page:
> http://www.acad.sunytccc.edu/instru...ce/probform.htm
> The above has the breadcrumbs physically at end of file but
> positioned absolutely via CSS to the start of the display, so as to
> have the actual page content show in search engine results. (The
> breadcrumbs are presently in a table inside the div. I do plan to
> get rid of the table.)
>
> This replaces
> http://www.acad.sunytccc.edu/instru...at/probform.htm
> which has the breadcrumbs physically at the top of the file.
>
> But the absolutely positioned version naturally breaks when the
> user's font size is quite large or the window is quite narrow: the
> breadcrumbs overlay the beginning of the page content.
>
> Here's my question: if I want to position anything visually across
> the top of the page but have it physically at the end of the file,
> how do I set it up so that the actual content moves down according
> to the height of the positioned stuff?

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>Seems to me that unless the div is at the point in the code where it's to
>appear, you cannot float it. And if you cannot float it, you cannot get
>items rendered under it to respect its size if it should vary.

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>2) Set a width for the crumbs div. Scrolling will be invoked at narrow
>screen widths, but you can leave the crumbs div at the end of the file where
>you seem to want them.

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