Hi- I am trying to center a web page. It seems like this should be very simple to do, but apparently it isn't my day. I have successfully centered the background by calling it in the css body tag:
body
{ font-family: Trebuchet MS, Arial;
cursor : default;
background:#000000 url("Images/long-template.jpg");
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position: center;
background-attachment:scroll;
height: 1228px;
}
but the text layers on top of this background seem to be all over the page, depending on the monitor and browser used to view.
Is there a simple way to keep the layers on top of the centered background safely contained within its boundaries?
I am sure this is very simple and I have missed this in googling, but any help is greatly appreciated!!!
Here is its temp url: http://conceptmoxie.com/annie/junkpage.htm
Thanks.
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You've posted this in the Lounge (for general rather than technical discussions) but this would surely be better in the HTML / CSS forum so I'll move it there for you.
Hi- I am trying to center a web page. It seems like this should be very simple to do, but apparently it isn't my day. I have successfully centered the background by calling it in the css body tag:
- body
-
{ font-family: Trebuchet MS, Arial;
-
cursor : default;
-
background:#000000 url("Images/long-template.jpg");
-
background-repeat:no-repeat;
-
background-position: center;
-
background-attachment:scroll;
-
height: 1228px;
-
-
}
but the text layers on top of this background seem to be all over the page, depending on the monitor and browser used to view.
Is there a simple way to keep the layers on top of the centered background safely contained within its boundaries?
I am sure this is very simple and I have missed this in googling, but any help is greatly appreciated!!!
Here is its temp url: http://conceptmoxie.com/annie/junkpage.htm
Thanks.
Sup ayamopamo, Welcome to TSDN!, please use proper code tags when posting code, and please read the posting guidelines .
Post all of your CSS so we can look for errors, usually we could find them in the link you gave us. but your CSS is in an external style sheet.
instead of centering your text move it using margins like
in your CSS. That way you can potition your text exactly where you want it inside of the area in your "background so to speak" that you think looks best.
Hope it helps, and Thanks, Death
Well, just to get you started, change this:
<div id="Div1" style="z-index: 1; left: 275px; width: 700px; position: absolute; top: 145px">
to:
<div id="Div1" style="z-index: 1; margin: 145px auto 0 auto; width: 700px;">
I don't know that the z-index is necessary and I didn't take the time to look at the graphic on top. The top margin may not be necessary depending on where it's coming from. id names should be lower-case.
Why not using a code like this:
[HTML]
{ font-family: Trebuchet MS, Arial;
cursor : default;
background:#000000 url("Images/long-template.jpg");
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position: center;
background-attachment:scroll;
height: 1228px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
[/HTML]
Just add the
[HTML]Margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
[/HTML]
..hope this helps
Well, just to get you started, change this:
<div id="Div1" style="z-index: 1; left: 275px; width: 700px; position: absolute; top: 145px">
to:
<div id="Div1" style="z-index: 1; margin: 145px auto 0 auto; width: 700px;">
I don't know that the z-index is necessary and I didn't take the time to look at the graphic on top. The top margin may not be necessary depending on where it's coming from. id names should be lower-case.
Hi- thanks for replying to my post. I did as you suggested, and it did indeed center the text on the page, however, now the top margin is a little screwy. Before, both ie and ff recognized it as 145 pixels from the top and that was consistent with both browsers--- the wild card was the horizontal alignment. Now they are both horizontally correct, but ff is pulling my nav bar way up high. is there anything i can do to fix this problem?
Here is what I changed my css file to: -
html {
-
margin: 0px;
-
padding: 0px;
-
}
-
-
body
-
{ font-family: Trebuchet MS, Arial;
-
cursor : default;
-
background:#000000 url("Images/background-template.jpg");
-
background-repeat:no-repeat;
-
background-position: center;
-
background-attachment:scroll;
-
height: 950px;
-
margin-left: auto;
-
margin-right: auto;
-
}
-
***I have posted the entire css file at the bottom of this post. Be warned-- it is long. (sorry)
and here is how i changed the <div> tag based on what you suggested.
<div id="Div1" style="z-index: 1; margin: 140px auto 0 auto; width: 700px;">
Here also, is the link to where the page is sitting currently: http://conceptmoxie.com/annie/junkpage.htm
Correct in IE, not in FF. Thank you for helping me.
(entire css file)
I'm off to my son's performance but, no, FF is performing correctly. Looking at it quickly, I believe it's an IE bug where it is expanding an element improperly, but I can't look at it again until late tonight or tomorrow sometime.
Does anyone have any suggestions for this? My client is viewing through IE, and while I could certainly fix this to be correct in her browser, anyone using FF would see a very misaligned page, at least vertically. I understand there is an IE/FF glitch, which causes a bit of difference btw. the two, but what can I do to minimize this so the page is within reason?
Thanks to all of you who have replied so far, and to anyone who can help me.
Use
for your body tag in CSS
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