Hello, adding "position: relative;" to the h1 style could do the trick.
Best regards, Christian Kirchhoff *Directmedia Publishing GmbH* · Möckernstraße 68 · 10965 Berlin www.digitale-bibliothek.de AG Berlin-Charlottenburg · HR B 58002 · USt.Id. DE173211737 Geschäftsführer: Ralf Szymanski · Erwin Jurschitza Paul Jinks schrieb: > Hi > > First the back story: I'm working at a university using a piece of web > authoring software called Course Genie. Teaching staff write their > materials in Word, hit generate and out pops the web page. Fine. > > My job is to write templates so this looks pretty, however, the html > leaves few hooks work with on. Basically there's > <body> > <div id="maincontent"> > <h1></h1> > Assorted other html tags > </div> > </body> > One option I'm looking at is to use the h1 element to introduce a little > graphical flavour. > > So far so good. Here's my problem: > > I've set a background image to the h1 element, and using negative margins > and padding etc. I'm trying to get it to 'pop' out of the containing div. > In Firefox2 for win this works more or less as I want it to, but in IE6 > the part of the image outside the containing div cannot be seen. Any > solutions? > > link: http://www.pauljinks.co.uk/itc/cgexperiments/ > > Many thanks in advance > > Paul > > > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/