Topic awaiting preservation: Div center positioning...

Well I think this will be confusing to say so I will do the best I can.

I need a script that detects the browser resolutions width, divides it by two, and minuses by 172, and then writes to the left position of a div to give it it's px position to the left.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
-YoYoFREAK

If you absolutely need a special script for this, I can't help you, but I do know that you can center a div in CSS with the following:

<div style="position: absolute; left: 50%"> (left border sits in middle of viewing window)
<div style="position: absolute; left: -172px"> (corrects left border position by half of box width -- which I assume is 172px)

<!-- insert content here -->

</div></div>

I got that and many other CSS tricks from A List Apart (which in turn links to even more CSS stuff, of course).

Lets see..

off the top of my head (which means it needs testing!)

// Get the position
x= (document.layers) ? innerWidth:document.body.offsetWidth;
x -= 172;

then the layer just needs to be positioned to the x variable.



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Thanks Bitdamaged and Perfect Thunder!
I am going to try the JS one out a bit later today, and Perfect Thunders is working good already.
Thanks for the Help!
-YoYoFREAK