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POPositioning Divs semi-randomly, without overlaps
 

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    <p>I have a page which has DIVs which contain short phrases (one-two words) of varying font sizes, which need to be positioned left-to-right according to a numerical parameter, and vertically so as not to overlap.</p> <p>It's like a tag cloud, but there's information contained in the y-axis as well ("coolness" in this case - <a href="http://cool-wall.appspot.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://cool-wall.appspot.com</a>)</p> <p>How should I lay these out? I'm currently using a very messy series of DIVs like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;div style="position:absolute; top:150px;left:10px;right:10px;bottom:10px"&gt; &lt;!-- then, repeated, with different top, left and font-size values --&gt; &lt;div style="align:center; margin:0; border:none; padding:0; float:left; visibility:visible; position:absolute; top:21%; left:56%; font-size:11px"&gt; &lt;div style="margin-top:0%; margin-right:50%; margin-bottom:0%; margin-left:-50%;"&gt; &lt;a href="foo"&gt;&lt;span style="display:inline"&gt; &amp;larr; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="bar"&gt;&lt;span style="display:inline"&gt; Buzz &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="display:inline"&gt; &amp;rarr; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;!-- of course, followed by a close div --&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>I use a stylesheet to extract some of those styles, and I realise that it's pretty poor CSS (and HTML)... but this was all I could hack together to do (almost) what I wanted to do. The main problem with the above (apart from it being confusing) is that I can't set the positioning so it doesn't overlap, because I don't know what size the font will be, nor how it will display onscreen.</p> <p>Happy to use JavaScript to get it right. But I don't know where to start. Any tips?</p>
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