Absolute Columns

CSS layouts have come quite a long way since the dark ages of web publishing, with all sorts of creative applications of floats, negative margins, and even background images employed in order to give us that most basic building block, the column. As the title implies, we are indeed going to be discussing columns today-more to the point, a handy little application of absolute positioning that may be exactly what you've been looking for...

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Absolute Columns

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