Its a really bad idea to mix absolute (pixels) and relative (em's and percentages) values. Use one or the other, (you can use em's and percentages together, because 1 em = 100% of the user's base font size). Also if you are using absolute positioning to bring your div#defList to an offset of 50% top and left, why are you then using negative margins? Use the offsets only. Negative margins are not always consistent across browsers when using positioning or floating.
Set all items to a margin:0, padding:0 first to make sure you are consistent across browsers, then add padding and postive margins to your elements as needed. Also change your overflow:scroll to overflow:auto. the scroll value will ALWAYS place both vertical and horizontal scroll bars on an item. auto will only place the ones necessary to scroll your content. Sandra Clark Why is it to mix, it does exactly what I want it to do. Now this may not work very widely but this is an Intranet application where I have knowledge of what browsers I am working with. My logic is that by placing the container top: 50% and left: 50%, this places the div layer in the middle of the browser, but it places the top left corner of the div in the middle. With the negative margins each 1/2 of the width and height move the middle of the div layer to the middle of the browser. How would I do that with positive values? I'll check out the scroll: auto, but I currently have only one vertical scroll bar, albeit in the limited set of browsers I am concerned with; again the advantage of a strictly controlled intranet environment of a small company. -------------- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource www.BloodSource.org Sacramento, CA --------- | 1 | | --------- Binary Soduko | | | --------- "C code. C code run. Run code run. Please!" - Cynthia Dunning Confidentiality Notice: This message including any attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete any copies of this message. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:245558 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
