Text positioning w/Styles

[Michael Satterwhite]

On my page, I'm positioning text on top of a graphic. I'm using the
following code on my page:

<img src="images/plainTop.gif" border="0" alt="" />
<div style="position : absolute; top:98px; font-size: small">
<div style="position : absolute; left: 190px"><a href="aboutus.h tml">About
Us</a></div>
<div style="position : absolute; left: 321px"><a
href="faq.html" >FAQ</a></div>
<div style="position : absolute; left: 415px"><a
href="stockspri ngs.html">Stock Springs</a></div>
<div style="position : absolute; left: 542px"><a href="sitemap.h tml">Site
Map</a></div>
<div style="Position : absolute; left: 655px"><a
href="resources .html">Resource s</a></div>
</div>

This displays perfectly in both Firefox and Mozilla. In Internet Explorer,
however, the text doesn't appear at all. Would one of you experts be so
kind as to point out my error?

tia
---Michael

[Christoph Paeper]

*Michael Satterwhite* <sa************ *****@weblore.c om>:

On my page, I'm positioning text on top of a graphic.

In your case there are even better solutions, but in general nothing (or
at least not much) is wrong with client-side image-maps in HTML.

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[Dave Sisley]

Michael Satterwhite <sa************ *****@weblore.c om> wrote:

On my page, I'm positioning text on top of a graphic. I'm using the
following code on my page:

<img src="images/plainTop.gif" border="0" alt="" />
<div style="position : absolute; top:98px; font-size: small">
<div style="position : absolute; left: 190px"><a href="aboutus.h tml">About
Us</a></div>
<div style="position : absolute; left: 321px"><a
href="faq.html" >FAQ</a></div>
<div style="position : absolute; left: 415px"><a
href="stockspri ngs.html">Stock Springs</a></div>
<div style="position : absolute; left: 542px"><a href="sitemap.h tml">Site
Map</a></div>
<div style="Position : absolute; left: 655px"><a
href="resources .html">Resource s</a></div>
</div>

This displays perfectly in both Firefox and Mozilla. In Internet Explorer,
however, the text doesn't appear at all. Would one of you experts be so
kind as to point out my error?

I'm not an expert, but what if you just used the image as the
background of a div wrapped around those things you want the image to
be underneath?

I also don't have IE, so I don't know if that would work better.

I mean something like this:

<div style="backgrou nd: url(images/plainTop.gif">

<div> ... your buttons and stuff... </div>
<div> ... etc, etc... </div>

</div>

I tried it out on the page for which you posted the url and
it still seems to work in firefox.

-dave.

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[Dave Sisley]

Dave Sisley <ds*****@sonic. net> wrote:

<snip my mostly horribly mistaken post>

Apparantly I didn't pay attention to what I was doing. My solution
doesn't work the way I thought, and of course I didn't notice until a
minute after posting it (sorry).

I wonder though, if there still isn't a way to use the banner image as
a backgound in css instead of as an element in the html to achieve
what the OP wants?

<I return to lurk-mode...>

-dave.

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Dave Sisley
ds*****@sonic.n et
roth-sisley.net

[kchayka]

Christoph Paeper wrote:

in general nothing (or
at least not much) is wrong with client-side image-maps in HTML.

....except when image-loading is disabled...

Virtually all grapical browsers suck in this case.

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[Christoph Paeper]

*kchayka* <us****@c-net.us>:

Christoph Paeper wrote:

in general nothing (or at least not much) is wrong with client-side
image-maps in HTML.

...except when image-loading is disabled...

Virtually all grapical browsers suck in this case.

That's right (and it's not the only problem they have in that mode).
Simulated image-maps with CSS positioning don't always fall back well
either, though.

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