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UnnDunn

06-05-2003 06:47 PM

HTML and CSS mavens...

Got a bit of a problem here...

This is what I have:
http://misc.unndunn.com/CSS/have.png

This is what I want:
http://misc.unndunn.com/CSS/want.png

In both cases the grey box is the boundary of a DIV tag with height and width CSS properties defined. The 'blah blah blah' in the middle is a paragraph within the DIV tag.

Does anyone have any clue how I can bring that paragraph down to the middle of the box?

I've been tearing my hair out all night over this. :mad:

TIA.

Halx	06-05-2003 09:52 PM

<td valign=middle> ?

paste some

Code:

code

for us

Dave	06-06-2003 09:23 AM

This is my ugly and unreliable solution to the problem at hand. It's main issue is that it doesn't work if your text overflows into more than one line.

Code:

&lt;div style="height: 100px; width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(0,0,0); text-align: center; padding: 0; margin: 0;"&gt;

  &lt;p style="vertical-align: middle; line-height: 98px; font-size: 12px;"&gt;

    Blah blah blah.

  &lt;p&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;

This is one of those things that's painful due to the css spec not really defining any property for doing the job. Other than a few faults like this css is a good thing, now if only people would stop using tables for all their positioning.

darkure

06-07-2003 08:40 PM

You need to change margin or padding I think. I forget which one on the inside. But you should try putting in something like "padding-top: 30px;" and see if that makes a difference.

UnnDunn

06-08-2003 11:35 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Dave
This is my ugly and unreliable solution to the problem at hand. It's main issue is that it doesn't work if your text overflows into more than one line.

Code:

<div style="height: 100px; width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(0,0,0); text-align: center; padding: 0; margin: 0;"> <p style="vertical-align: middle; line-height: 98px; font-size: 12px;"> Blah blah blah. <p> </div>

This is one of those things that's painful due to the css spec not really defining any property for doing the job. Other than a few faults like this css is a good thing, now if only people would stop using tables for all their positioning.

I wound up fixing it by using the top property on the paragraph to bring it down.

I think the W3C needs to address this. Seriously.

thecow

06-08-2003 11:42 AM

Is there something bad about using tables for positioning? Most of the sites I goto use them for positioning. I actually had problems with div (acting like it wasn't standardized), and ended up going with tables. One of the pages I was redesigning for work had used div, and it looked totally jacked up from one version of IE to the next.

twister002

06-08-2003 12:08 PM

check out http://www.blooberry.com

They have an excellent HTML and CSS reference, including examples and browser specific information.

UnnDunn

06-09-2003 07:26 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by thecow
Is there something bad about using tables for positioning? Most of the sites I goto use them for positioning. I actually had problems with div (acting like it wasn't standardized), and ended up going with tables. One of the pages I was redesigning for work had used div, and it looked totally jacked up from one version of IE to the next.

Unless you're vry careful, tables can get very complex, very fast. More complex nested tables can slow down browser rendering, increase HTML size and result in a horribly broken page should it not load properly.

Table-positioned pages are also less accessible.

rubicon

06-10-2003 07:45 AM

Take a look at www.w3shools.org. They have a good (and short) tutorial on CSS which includes alignment and borders, etc.

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