Absolute and Relative positioning

[Thomas]

People say you should use both but it is so much easier to just use absolute?

If you should use both, how do you use them together?

[hamheyelliot]

They're pretty different and there's nothing wise to stop you from using both? I'd say you can go ahead with just relative positioning most of the time though to get a nice fluid design.

Relative pays attention to the objects around it and essentially fits around them, while an absolute positioned object will just fling itself to the top-left.