Thanks... that moves the text down nicely. Funny that your solution never crossed of my mind! The only drawback is that it creates a large (invisible) link area beneath each image which could potentially compete with content in a different layout (a second row of gallery images for example).
Here's the result: http://richmondesign.com/fsm_portfolio/index2.php Thanks again, -iE ................................................. ibn Ezra mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ................................................. On Apr 13, 2007, at 15:32 PM, nat parker wrote: > ibn Ezra wrote: >> What I would really like to do is to take the text inside the >> anchor and force it to drop below the background image (with >> appropriate padding), but it doesn't look like there is a way to >> 'grab onto' just the text and do that without adverse side >> effects. Is this possible? > > If I understand what you are trying to do, you could just add > padding-top to: > > #content #portfolios li a { > display: block; > height: 91px; > width: 147px; > background: transparent url(../_images/vellum.png) repeat; > padding-top: 95px; > } > > > nat ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/