css sidebar

[drpcken]

Hey I'm trying to create a css sidebar relative to a table cell I have on my page (inside the cell, relative to top and left) that will have some links. Something similar to what Microsoft does on their site (see attachments, has the links in it).

Any research has come up empty so if anyone has a good resource or tutorial it would be great.

Thank you!

[WebJoel]

That just looks like an ordinary "unordered list" to me (but impossible to tell from a *jpg). It could be (and if it's a M$ page, it probably is) done using TABLE with TH cells for the black-text title, and non-sematic bullets to indicate faux list-items in the TDs below each TH cell.

It would also appear to be "absolute-positioned" relative to the top:0; right:0 of the container element. That would take it out of any document flow and not exert any 'pressure' on any other element, so as to be place in unusual places (outside of a DIV, or TD, etc). Proper margining of other element would prevent them from existing 'overtop of' this abs-positioned section, and not affect it.

[donatello]

Here's what you need:
MS Tree Menu (http://www.scriptsearch.com/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=5781)
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MS Outlook Bar I (http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/outbar/index.htm)
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MS Outlook Bar II (http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/outbar2/index.htm)