On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:01 AM, John Horner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just spent a bit of time looking at how background-position works > when expressed as a percentage: > > background-position: 90%; > > and I'm wondering why it works the way it does. > > Here's the best way I can describe the effect of (90%, x-axis) > positioning with percentages: "to position the image such that the point > 90% across the image is aligned with the point 90% across the element". Have you read specs? http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/colors.html#propdef-background-position
> There's something rather counter-intuitive about that (it's even hard to > describe!), and I've tried to explain it in teaching people about CSS > and found that people are rather baffled by it. > > Does anyone know why it was created that way, and/or can you tell me if > there's some very useful thing this rule allows you to do? That is, as > opposed to a simpler rule like "image is offset that amount to the left" > which is what I assumed when I first came across it. Can you provide other way to align right edge of background image with right edge of box? To center background image? -- Алексей ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
