Hi Tatham, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tatham Oddie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <wsg@webstandardsgroup.org>; "'designer'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 12:03 PM Subject: RE: [WSG] CSS alignment issues
> Bob, > I really didn't want to use a table - otherwise I would have been able to > say that there isn't a single table in the whole site. Now I'll just have to > talk about the sub-sites... Grr. > Anyway, the code was a bit more complex than you posted as I had to center > vertically the text and the block. > I've updated the verion on http://www.e-oddie.com/ which works in IE, but > not FF. I just can't seem to make that work. Must be having a complete > blinder today - as I used to do everything with tables. > Anyway, I'm telling all my users to get Firefox and I'm a Firefox user so I > need to work out this prob. > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Tatham --------------------------- After writing to you, I thought I'd better check out what I'd said [ :-) ] so I knocked up this: http://www.marscovista.fsnet.co.uk/gwelanmor/middle/centering.html You can see how I've applied some 'content' with a background and some text, the latter positioned with margins. The CSS is embedded, for simplicity. It works in FF, IE6, IE5.5, Opera . . . Until all the world becomes FF :-), there <em>are</em> times when you just HAVE to use a table, albeit a tiny one . . . HTH a bit more. Bob McClelland, Cornwall (U.K.) www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
