Re: [css-d] centering a jquery slideshow

2009-02-05 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 05/02/2009, at 11:49 PM, Daniel Kessler wrote: > In another test page, I had changed it out for p tags like you but > that hadn't helped it center. The major difference seemed to be > width:100%. For educational reasons, why did that work? Without the width specified the p tag block will

Re: [css-d] centering a jquery slideshow

2009-02-05 Thread Daniel Kessler
On Feb 4, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Kathy Wheeler wrote: > Replacing the ul li with a p and the following css: > > #slide_images p { > width: 100%; > text-align: center; > color: rgb(255,255,255); > } > In another test page, I had changed it out for p tags like you but that hadn't h

Re: [css-d] centering a jquery slideshow

2009-02-04 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 05/02/2009, at 11:39 AM, Mark Vickers wrote: > FWIW, your solution works perfectly in Opera and Safari on XP Pro > SP3. On > IE, surprise surprise, it breaks: horizontal centring still works, > but the > slideshow is still glued to the top of the black box. Haven't > checked any > browser

Re: [css-d] centering a jquery slideshow

2009-02-04 Thread Mark Vickers
Wow, that was pretty darn' succinct and incontrovertible Kathy! I know one day CSS will be that intuitive for me . . . maybe in the next lifetime. FWIW, your solution works perfectly in Opera and Safari on XP Pro SP3. On IE, surprise surprise, it breaks: horizontal centring still works, but the s

Re: [css-d] centering a jquery slideshow

2009-02-04 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 05/02/2009, at 3:08 AM, Daniel Kessler wrote: > I have a slideshow using jquery: > http://sph.umd.edu/home/test_css2.cfm > > I'd like to center the images within the black box. Looking at the JQuery docs for InnerFade you aren't limited to using ul li constructs. Perhaps replacing the lis

[css-d] centering a jquery slideshow

2009-02-04 Thread Daniel Kessler
I have a slideshow using jquery: http://sph.umd.edu/home/test_css2.cfm I'd like to center the images within the black box. They are different widths. I tried setting their widths in the but that wasn't useful nor was setting the ul width/margin:auto. I have tried quite a few things and a