I have been constrained to absolute positioning almost all of the controls on HTML screen (more correctly, php, as they're generated server-side).
<style type="text/css">
.textentry {
positions absolute;
top: 50px;
left: 100px;
height: 80px;
}
<form>
<input type="text" class="textentry" />
<body>
</body></form></style>br mode="hold" />
Now, one thing about positioning: there are often rules that you cannot position without being within a positioned entity. One way to solve this (and it usually is harmless, is <form style='position:absolute;top:0px;left:0px'> This restriction is generally quite useful - if you use the absolute positioning within a div, for example, locations can be absolute with respect to that div and the div (container) can be anywhere on the screen: think "console"
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