In article <MP************************@news.individual.net> ,
Lauri Raittila <la***@raittila.cjb.net> wrote:
in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, Eric Lindsay wrote: If I want to have the middle of an image vertically aligned with the
middle of a heading (or several lines of heading), is there some
particular way people would recommend? vertical-align: center looked
made for that.
Yes, and should not work on any much used Mac browser either. Use
vertical-align:middle
Opps, thanks for that. I guess I was looking at text-align as well and
didn't recall the correct item for vertical-align.
Vertical-align:middle is not exactly made for this, as you want to do
multiline vertical align, as it is only for vertical align inside linebox
usually.
So if I can actually keep the heading confined to one line, I am in a
much better position. I normally do manage to confine headings to a
single line, but I rather suspect the people wanting things changed will
want lots of lines of text.
Some ways to do vertical centering:
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~laurirai/www/css/middle/
Choose some that fit your purpose...
After posting I had actually found that wonderful resource that you have
provided. It has provided some great ways of doing other center layouts.
Thank you very much for it.
However I couldn't figure how to precisely match the many ideas on your
page to what I wanted to do once I had eliminated using pixel
measurements and tables. I can do it with a table, but I really don't
want to get pushed into using a table for layout until I have nowhere
else to turn. If I could be sure of having a single line of header it
would be great. The line-height idea looks very handy if text doesn't
wrap. Plus some of the really nice ideas don't work with IE. Very
handy page. I will have a good play with your ideas and see what
happens. Thanks.
Of course, maybe I can talk them out of the idea that they want several
lines of heading. Maybe I can convince them that having the top of the
image and the top of the heading aligned would look more like the rest
of the page.
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