CSS relative positions

I've decided to completely redo one of my sites with CSS. The problem I'm having now is that CSS likes to place things on top of one another. While my layout requires some things to be beside each other. For example I have the navigation menu on the left and some text just to the right of that. With CSS relative positioning it seems I can't do this. The divs just want to go above or below each other (depending on the order they appear in the html site itself). Any solution to this problem?

Thanks.

 

I was just tinkering with relative positioning a couple days ago...have you seen this tutorial?
http://www.brainjar.com/css/positioning/default2.asp

I do know that I got things to work with relative positioning...until I tested things in IE....

 

Without knowing your code, you might try floating your elements or adding clear: both to your elements

 

Here's a nice website with css layout techniques: http://glish.com/css/

 

Thanks for the help. I've decided to just go with content management systems that have everything there for me already. All I have to do is play with the theme layout

 

That's a great link, thanks!

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