Dynamic HTML allows HTML elements to be positioned on a page, independent of their position within the HTML stream. An absolutely positioned HTML element has its position attribute set to absolute instead of static.
Absolutely positioned elements also have a z-index, which specifies the visual order of overlapping absolutely positioned elements (and how absolutely positioned elements are ordered relative to elements in the HTML stream).
An absolutely positioned element is also known as a two dimensional (2D) element. A statically positioned element is known as a one dimensional (1D) element. A relatively positioned element (an element with its position attribute set to relative) is treated as a 1D element.
Browser specificity
Absolute positioning is implemented differently in Netscape
and Internet Explorer. The HTML editor implements absolute positioning
that is optimized for Internet Explorer. This implementation does
not work with Netscape browsers. (Absolute positioning in Netscape
requires the use of LAYER tags or STYLE tags with a position property.)
