[TCP] CSS layout question

2007-12-05 Thread Dick Margulis
I'm trying to lay out a fairly tricky page for a client and I'm scratching my head as to how to approach it. Here's the situation: The background for the page is a photograph in the center of which is a white rectangle where the content will go. The photo is big enough to fill the largest scre

Re: [TCP] CSS layout question

2007-12-05 Thread Will Sansbury
CTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dick Margulis > Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 2:50 PM > To: tcp@techcommpros.com > Subject: [TCP] CSS layout question > > I'm trying to lay out a fairly tricky page for a client and > I'm scratching my head as t

Re: [TCP] CSS layout question

2007-12-05 Thread Charles Beck
15:07 To: 'Dick Margulis'; tcp@techcommpros.com Subject: Re: [TCP] CSS layout question I'd approach this a little differently. I would use the full photograph as the background on BODY (or a top level container DIV), then position over it a DIV with a white background. Anytime yo

Re: [TCP] CSS layout question

2007-12-21 Thread Dick Margulis
Lech, Thanks for your effort. I posted the question on December 5 and today is December 21. So, as you might suspect, I've solved the problem already (with assistance from several generous people, I hasten to add). Client deadlines wait for no man ;-) Best regards, Dick Lech Rzedzicki wrote

Re: [TCP] CSS layout question

2007-12-21 Thread Lech Rzedzicki
Absolute positioning works well for most browsers now, so by all means this is possible. Attached you will see a HTML with a CSS and jpg for background. The content block is positioned 100pixels to the left and 100 pixels down You might have several approaches here: -exoeriment with relative or pe