John Albin Wilkins article on responsive design’s dirty little secret is extremely useful.
http://www.palantir.net/blog/responsive-design-s-dirty-little-secret
The core theory is floating elements with margin-right: -100%;
Your "grid" elements are all floated, with margin-left: X%, and margin-right: -100%.
At first, i didn’t really know what to make of it.. now it’s a critical part of my toolbox.
What this lets you do is stack elements on top of each other, positioning purely by the margin-left attribute. The negative margin right allows you to use what almost looks like absolute positioning, but while still keeping the elements "in the flow" vertically.
That’s right.. with this trick, you can still have vertical flow while giving up horizontal flow.
Every time you’ve used absolute positioning to achieve a cross fade, but had to hard code the height value, you could have just used this instead.
Give it a shot!
TL;DR: the dirty little secret allows you to retain vertical page flow, while removing elements from horizontal page flow. Oh my goodness. This should be CSS 101.
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