[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[extend background colour to bottom of page]
>> It would do that automagically if it weren't for the absolute
>> positioning.
>
> Yep. So is my choice just to reposition everything with
> relative positioning?
To give an element position:relative, means to give it a posit
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 02:38:00PM +0200, Els wrote:
> How did you colour your page before it was centered?
> The problem with absolute positioning, is that you are taking the
> elements out of the normal flow, thus leaving its parent
> virtually empty. And an empty container doesn't gain any hei
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 12:16:03PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Ok, I've tried that. I've also used the container to give a
>> background colour of white for the content area, where the
>> main body background will be grey. This hasn't been entirely
>> successful; I
> Ok, I've tried that. I've also used the container to give a background
> colour of white for the content area, where the main body background
> will be grey. This hasn't been entirely successful; I guess I have to
> set a fixed height, as not setting one meant the white background
> wasn't se
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 12:16:03PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ok, I've tried that. I've also used the container to give a
> background colour of white for the content area, where the
> main body background will be grey. This hasn't been entirely
> successful; I guess I have to set a fixed
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 12:21:04PM +0200, Els wrote:
> Just make a div with id="container" to hold all that's inside
> now, give it position:relative, and all that was
> previously absolute positioned to the viewport, will now be
> relative to the container. (no need to change any of the absolu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> http://www.wdam.co.uk/clients/dynam/hh/
>
> I didn't post it at first as I didn't want it to look like I'm asking
> you to do my homework for me; I'd rather grasp the concept than copy
> parrot fashion.
Good thinking :-)
> That said, I do need to fix it rather fast!
Scott Reston wrote:
> I'm wondering - wouldn't it work to simply set the width of
> the body appropriately, then set it's left and right margins
> to "auto"?
And give it position:relative, yes :-)
> Same effect without any extra non-semantic cruft.
>
> This just off the top of my head, so YMMV.
I'm wondering - wouldn't it work to simply set the width of the body
appropriately, then set it's left and right margins to "auto"?
Same effect without any extra non-semantic cruft.
This just off the top of my head, so YMMV.
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On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 12:21:04PM +0200, Els wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > So... My idea is to make a container class for it all, and then
> > to have everything positioned relative rather than absolute.
> > And centre the containing class.
>
> Just make a div with id="container" to hold
Dave Goodchild wrote:
> To centre in the browser there are two main ways, either use
> the IE heck (text-align: center then text-align: left etc)
> but I prefer using relative positioning and negative margins
> - example:
>
> #wrapper {
> width: 740px;
> position: relative;
> left: 50%;
> margin-le
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Having spent ages learning how to position stuff in CSS and
> getting it meticulously right (using the nice hack that I was
> pointed at to get IE to behave, too) the client has now said
> "Oh, can you make the content centre in the browser?"
>
> ARGH! If I was still usin
On 15/06/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:12:49AM +0100, Dave Goodchild wrote:
> > Can you give me the URL?
>
> Course!
>
> http://www.wdam.co.uk/clients/dynam/hh/
>
> I didn't post it at first as I didn't want it to look like I'm
> asking you to do my
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:12:49AM +0100, Dave Goodchild wrote:
> Can you give me the URL?
Course!
http://www.wdam.co.uk/clients/dynam/hh/
I didn't post it at first as I didn't want it to look like I'm
asking you to do my homework for me; I'd rather grasp the concept
than copy parrot fashion. Th
On 15/06/06, Flash Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:01:05AM +0100, Dave Goodchild wrote:
> > > To centre in the browser there are two main ways, either use the IE
> heck
> > > (text-align: center then text-align: left etc) but I prefer using
> relative
> > > position
On 15/06/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Having spent ages learning how to position stuff in CSS and getting
> it meticulously right (using the nice hack that I was pointed at
> to get IE to behave, too) the client has now said "Oh, can you
> make the content centre in the brow
Having spent ages learning how to position stuff in CSS and getting
it meticulously right (using the nice hack that I was pointed at
to get IE to behave, too) the client has now said "Oh, can you
make the content centre in the browser?"
ARGH! If I was still using tables for layout this would be
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