Chapter 12 Dynamic Positioning CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) provides the syntax for specifying the precise positions of HTML elements. Dynamic positioning uses the object model to access and manipulate the positions of elements in the document through the CSS object model and through the rendered positions of the elements on the screen. Bonus Bot Keygen Free. Precise control over positioning elements with HTML was pioneered in Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 using the HTML Layout control. The HTML Layout control was designed as an ActiveX control that interpreted an early version of the CSS positioning syntax. An ActiveX control was used rather than embedding the support directly into the browser to give the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) more time to define and finalize a positioning syntax. In late 1996, a syntax was agreed upon in the W3C CSS Positioning (CSS-P) working draft.