On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:41:39 +1100, John Horner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Slightly off-[this]topic, but does anyone have an explanation for how > vertical alignment got "missed" in the creation of CSS? This topic > comes up again and again. I mean, forgive me for being crass, but did > they just forget? Or was it not considered necessary? > I imagined that they would have a big list called "Stuff You Can > Already Do" which they worked through -- and vertical alignment > should have been on it... <...>
Let's recall how did we do that "Stuff You Can Already Do" -- placing content into the table cell and putting and using attribute valign="middle". Now try this: <div style="width:500px; height:500px; display:table-cell; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center; border:1px solid red">centered</div> The word "centered" is nicely centered (at least in FF). Internet Explorer does not support table-cell, or table-row for display, but this is not the fault of CSS. You may also be interested in this: http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/equal_height/ Regards, Rimantas -- http://rimantas.com/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
