Thanks to everyone for helping out with this Paul
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > On Apr 11, 2008, at 12:05 AM, Paul Jinks wrote: > >> 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/ >> > > The parent container 'hasLayout'. [1] > This should work: > h1 {position:relative; zoom:1;} > > [1] <http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html> > > Philippe > --- > Philippe Wittenbergh > http://l-c-n.com/ > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > 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/ > > ______________________________________________________________________ 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/