Re: [css-d] Positioning images within a table cell

2011-02-10 Thread Geoff Lane
On Thursday, February 10, 2011, 3:16:08 AM, G.Sørtun wrote: If you intend to keep the form wrapped around the table like in your example, you can position relative to that form. If not you have to wrap a div around the table and position relative to that div. Many thanks, George. I probably

Re: [css-d] Positioning images within a table cell

2011-02-09 Thread Geoff Lane
On Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 11:22:33 PM, Eric A. Meyer wrote: So, as Paul says, throw a div in there, gritting your teeth about the crufty markup if necessary, and relatively position the div. If you want to position in relation to the right or bottom edges of the cell, you may have

Re: [css-d] Positioning images within a table cell

2011-02-09 Thread G.Sørtun
On 09.02.2011 13:18, Geoff Lane wrote: Any further help gratefully received. Maybe this will do... http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/pb/Map%20Test.htm regards Georg __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org]

Re: [css-d] Positioning images within a table cell

2011-02-09 Thread Dan Kaufman
Nicely done. Dan K. -Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of G.Sørtun Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 9:46 AM To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] Positioning images within a table cell

Re: [css-d] Positioning images within a table cell

2011-02-09 Thread Geoff Lane
On Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 5:46:28 PM, G.Sørtun wrote: Maybe this will do... http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/pb/Map%20Test.htm --- My initial reaction was, Wow! Many thanks for that! It seems so simple yet seems to work in FF, IE, Chrome, and Opera. Yet when I tried something similar the

Re: [css-d] Positioning images within a table cell

2011-02-09 Thread Tim Climis
Maybe this will do... http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/pb/Map%20Test.htm --- My initial reaction was, Wow! Many thanks for that! It seems so simple yet seems to work in FF, IE, Chrome, and Opera. Yet when I tried something similar the images in the right-hand column were all over the

Re: [css-d] Positioning images within a table cell

2011-02-09 Thread Paul Burney
Georg's solution relied on the table being at the top of the page.  To fix it, add a position:relative rule to the table.  Then his solution should work beautifully. That would work in most browsers, but not Firefox*. If you enclose your table in a div with a position: relative rule, you

Re: [css-d] Positioning images within a table cell

2011-02-09 Thread Geoff Lane
On Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 7:02:39 PM, Tim Climis wrote: Georg's solution relied on the table being at the top of the page. To fix it, add a position:relative rule to the table. Then his solution should work beautifully. --- Thanks. I tried adding style='position:relative;' to the

Re: [css-d] Positioning images within a table cell

2011-02-09 Thread G.Sørtun
Georg's solution relied on the table being at the top of the page. To fix it, add a position:relative rule to the table. Then his solution should work beautifully. I tried adding style='position:relative;' to the opening table tag with no discernible effect. Of course it didn't, since

[css-d] Positioning images within a table cell

2011-02-08 Thread Geoff Lane
Hi All, I'm trying to put together a map-driven interface. An embryonic example is at http://www.gjctech.co.uk/test/test.php (.) The 'work in progress' CSS stylesheet is at http://www.gjctech.co.uk/test/csw.css The map consists of a number of tiles, each in a table cell. At each vertical edge of

Re: [css-d] Positioning images within a table cell

2011-02-08 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Geoff Lane wrote: I'm trying to put together a map-driven interface. An embryonic example is at http://www.gjctech.co.uk/test/test.php (.) The 'work in progress' CSS stylesheet is at http://www.gjctech.co.uk/test/csw.css The map consists of a number of tiles, each in a table cell. At each

Re: [css-d] Positioning images within a table cell

2011-02-08 Thread Paul Burney
It sounds like you need to set position: relative on the td element. That way, it will establish a system of coordinates for absolutely positioned elements inside it - i.e., they will be positioned relative to the upper left corner of the cell. I believe this is correct, but if I recall

Re: [css-d] Positioning images within a table cell

2011-02-08 Thread Eric A. Meyer
At 4:51 PM -0500 2/8/11, Paul Burney wrote: It sounds like you need to set position: relative on the td element. That way, it will establish a system of coordinates for absolutely positioned elements inside it - i.e., they will be positioned relative to the upper left corner of the cell.