David O'Neill wrote:
> I have reposted the page on www.amici-noctis.net which has been
> recoded to make the mouseover stuff work properly, but this centering
> issues really is bugging me...
> Details: the divs in question have a permanent and total width of
> 850px and a permanent and total height of 455px, this will not change
> at all. The site is being developed for firefox 1.5 and IE6/7
The 'total width' is the issue here. Since you're using absolute
positioning for everything, you'll also have to give the new
centering-div at least the same width, or else everything will be
offset. I gave you a styleset with such a width the last time around -
since I tested the solution before sending it onto the list, and nothing
has changed since then.
HTML:
<body ..... >
<div id="page">
...
</div>
</body>
CSS:
body {text-align: center;}
#page {margin: 0 auto; position: relative; width: 860px; text-align: left;}
...note the 'width' and 'position: relative'.
The above enters the page perfectly in Firefox 1.5.0.4, Opera 9.00,
Netscape 7.2 and IE6, and I would think all other css-capable browsers
made in the last 5 years or so, and a few, not so capable, older IE/win
versions.
The 'total height' doesn't make much of an impression though, since all
my browsers have a default of 'minimum font size: 14px' and your
'fixed-height' layout creates overlapping - making the text hard to
understand. IE/win with its 16px 'ignore font sizes...' provides no
better results.
I don't mind people having small text and fixed dimensions on their web
sites, but my browser-defaults won't change since I can't read small
text, and I don't think I'm the only one. So, if a site doesn't
accommodate reasonable browser-options, that site simply doesn't work.
regards
Georg
--
http://www.gunlaug.no
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