Text align within a div problem

Hi all,
I have a problem with aligning text within a div. I want the text to be aligned at the bottom of the div. What is wrong with his code:

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<div style="height:150px; width:200px; line-height:150px; vertical-align:bottom; border:solid 1px red;">

This text should apear at the bottom of the div!

</div>

Feb 11 '08 #1

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hsriat

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Hi all,
I have a problem with aligning text within a div. I want the text to be aligned at the bottom of the div. What is wrong with his code:

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<div style="height:150px; width:200px; line-height:150px; vertical-align:bottom; border:solid 1px red;">

This text should apear at the bottom of the div!

</div>

there are two things...
1. You have applied line-height:150px => this will always keep 75 px on both sides of the text. So even if valign=bottom, it will leave 75 px below itself.
2. it doesn't seem to work with DIV, or even P,
try it with TABLE

Feb 11 '08 #2

mynkow

I dont care if I use line-heigth or not. I have to align the text at the bottom of the div. I MUST use div, not a table.
10x

Feb 11 '08 #3

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Try giving it padding.

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 div {

  padding-top:120px;

}

Hope it helps, Thanks,
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Feb 11 '08 #4

mynkow

Yes, good answer. How can I miss that? I can if I am trying to do it with vertical-align. Thanks for the answer. So I have another question. In which situations should I use this sh*t vertical-align in divs?

Feb 11 '08 #5

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I've only seen vertical-align used in tables and used to fixed gaps between an image, and other elements. But here's a little information on it.

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Feb 11 '08 #6

drhowarddrfine

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vertical-align is an inline css property and for table cells. divs are block level so it doesn't work there. It's used to align inline text, images, etc. in relation to the baseline or, more specifially, the generated inline box.

Feb 11 '08 #7

drhowarddrfine

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You need to put your text inside an element if you want to position it inside a div. Right now, the text is just part of the div, but if you properly put it in a <p>, as it should be, You could using positioning to place it anywhere inside that div without resorting to padding.

Feb 11 '08 #8

mynkow

You need to put your text inside an element if you want to position it inside a div. Right now, the text is just part of the div, but if you properly put it in a <p>, as it should be, You could using positioning to place it anywhere inside that div without resorting to padding.

Can you give me an example because I tried as you wrote but still no effect?

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 <div style="height:150px; width:200px;vertical-align:middle; border:solid 1px red;">

        <p>text align test</p>

</div>

Feb 14 '08 #9

just a feeling

You need to put your text inside an element if you want to position it inside a div. Right now, the text is just part of the div, but if you properly put it in a <p>, as it should be, You could using positioning to place it anywhere inside that div without resorting to padding.

I guess he drives at this,
[HTML]<div style="height:150px; width:200px;vertical-align:middle; border:solid 1px red; position:relative;">
<p style=" bottom:0px; position:absolute;">This text should apear at the bottom of the div!</p>[/HTML]

Hope it helps,
Rawan.

Feb 14 '08 #10

drhowarddrfine

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[HTML]<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
div{position:relative;height:200px;width:400px;out line:1px solid blue}
p{position:absolute;bottom:0}
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div>
<p>Hello</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>[/HTML]

Feb 14 '08 #11

mynkow

Thank you for the help!

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