Topic: CSS possitioning

Please bear in mind i still have my 'L' plates attached but I am using the CSS layout template on http://glish.com/css/7.asp and within the banner DIV i am calling a ssi page which contains an image among other things, which I cant seem to Horizonally centre. I have searched and searched but cant get my head round how i can get the image centred via external an css file without using a table.

am i being silly here?

ben

Background image maybe should display centretop?

body

{

  background-image: url("xxx.jpg");

  background-repeat: no-repeat;

  background-position: 50% 0%

}

[edit] apparently this falls over in nn4???? any comments?[/edit]


[This message has been edited by FatRod (edited 06-19-2003).]

There's some info on horizontal centering in CSS at bluerobot--maybe you'll find that useful.

thatks soho, i have looked at the bluerobot solutions but I can't work out how to get the content (i.e a gif) within a DIV to centre align properly and be xbrowser compatible.

Well, I must admit that I'm not really sure what you are talking about up there... perhaps a page to look at?

I'll try and post some code when it looks a little better. I think I should have mentioned that doc is coded XHTML strict and The "align" attribute of the div element is not supported in XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD.

ben

For one thing you're missing a ';' after the background-postion line.

Secondly, NN4x does not support much CSS at all. There's no point trying to satisfy it at this point.

3rd, when it comes to centering a background image, your above psoted code should work, provided the missing semi-colon is put back in. If you want to center a non-background item, then you'll need to set the left and right margin to 'auto'.

Actually, since the declaration with the missing semicolon is the last in the group, I don't think it should break--you can generally get away with leaving the semicolon off the last declaration, although it's a bad practice.

Then again, I could be wrong... it's been known to happen.

I've had varying resuls with such things.

I've had things that are not required break a page anyway....

May not be the problem, but I've had sillier things cause worse.

=)