How to position a div above another div while placed after that div? (see descr.)

I saw this the other day. Look for the fourth tip.

Not sure if that is exactly what you want but you might want to take a look.

I’m sorry I didn’t mention, but div A and div B do not have a fixed height, so you can’t use that. Also, it does make use of absolute positioning, where I’m not very fond of.

Unfortunately, you can’t do this unless you know the height of div a.

However, it sounds a like a code-reorganization would be in order. You’ll probably want to separate presentation from logic, thus in this case you might want to split the code that checks whether B should be present to a separate file. You can use “return true;” in that file and then before B you can do “if(include ‘thefile.php’){...”.

It would help, if you could show us the site you are working on. I dont think you can position something before something else without using absolute or relative positioning if the elements don’t have a fixed height without useing javascript for example. A not so elegant solution might be to use a relative positioning on both elements to swap them and leave enough room before and after both elements to cover the variable height. Also you may try setting fixed height and overflow: auto property, which may add scrollbars if the content is too long. Other than that, I belieave that the elegant solution is inside that PHP