Moving the table causes it to have an irregular layout due to its absolute positioning

One of the elements on my webpage is a table structured like this:


<table>
    <tr>
        <td>
            <img src="images/End_051.png" />
        </td>
        <td>
            <img src="images/End_051.png" />
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>
             <img src="images/End_051.png" />
        </td>
        <td>
             <img  src="images/End_051.png" />
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

However, I encountered an issue where the images collapse on top of each other when I use CSS to set the td position as absolute. Here is a visual of how it looks:

Do you have any suggestions on how to fix this problem?

css

Answer №1

The reason for this behavior is that absolutely positioned elements are taken out of the normal document flow.

When an element is set to absolute positioning, other elements act as though the absolutely positioned element doesn't exist. This is why all the images (within the td elements) are overlapping and stacking on top of each other.

Consider these two solutions:

  1. If you prefer to keep the elements absolutely positioned, adjust the position of each element manually using top: xpx and left: xpx, replacing x with the desired pixel offset for your image.
  2. Alternatively, apply a CSS3 2d transformation to img:hover to scale the images when hovered over by a user.

Below is the code snippet for the second solution:

img {
    height: 50px;
    width: 50px;
    background-color: blue;
}
img:hover{
    transform: scale(2);
    -ms-transform: scale(2); /* IE 9 */
    -webkit-transform: scale(2); /* Safari and Chrome */
}

View a Working Example demonstrating the second solution.

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