Re: [css-d] property for aligning vertical text in a div

2010-09-22 Thread Tim Climis
On Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:39:40 pm Lisa Frost wrote: > This works much better than fiddling with the top padding on the tag. > However i don't understand positioning very well apart from floats. > So just to clarify for me: > > Position relative on the footer div - what's it relative too?

Re: [css-d] property for aligning vertical text in a div

2010-09-21 Thread Lisa Frost
This works much better than fiddling with the top padding on the tag. However i don't understand positioning very well apart from floats. So just to clarify for me: Position relative on the footer div - what's it relative too? Why do we add a 0 on the absolute position. Does bottom not mean righ

Re: [css-d] property for aligning vertical text in a div

2010-09-20 Thread Rick Gordon
Classing the div as display:table-cell would allow the vertical-align to operate -- and does not necessarily require that it be enclosed in table-rows or a table. -- On 9/21/10 at 7:27 AM +0700, Lisa Frost wrote in a message entitled "Re: [css-d] property for aligning ver

Re: [css-d] property for aligning vertical text in a div

2010-09-20 Thread Lisa Frost
> "You can easily add a margin on the tag within the footer to push the > text down the page to where you need it to be." > Never thought of that. Thanks, that's an easy solution. But going back to my original question. Is there an actual property to accomplish it, like you can have vertical-alig

Re: [css-d] property for aligning vertical text in a div

2010-09-20 Thread Venditelli, Daniel - Web Development Administrator
copyright notice. Regards, Daniel -Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Lisa Frost Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 5:09 PM To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: [css-d] property for aligning vertical text in

[css-d] property for aligning vertical text in a div

2010-09-20 Thread Lisa Frost
Hi, I have no idea what property i need to accomplish the following. If anyone can point me in the right direction i can then go and look it up. I have footer div which has a background image. Question 1: To get the background image to display i needed to add width and height values. Is that corr