Centering Layers??

Hi - I am trying to adopt new web standards and convert my existing table based
web sites to layers and css - what I want to know is how I can get a layer
positioned centrally on a web page under any browser dimensions!! any help
would be most apprecated - starting to pull my hair out a little!!!!

maybe this can help you:
http://www.roast-horse.com/tutorials/_tutorials/css_centered_content/index.html

fantastic, at least I know I can place the code in now and play with it, is
there any easy way to lay a layer onto a page and format it prior to placing
the additional layers into the main layer?? many thanks for the link, this has
really helped me out, and maybe even improved my value now in the
marketplace!!!! cheers P

Actually, the term layers is used by FrontPage (and perhaps others) too. I
think it's fairly generic to refer to AP divisions as 'layers'.

Here are more links for you to study -

http://www.roast-horse.com/tutorials/_tutorials/css_centered_content/index.html

And here is some code -

(inline styles used for clarity)

STYLESHEET -
body { text-align:center; } /* for IE5/IE5.5 */
#wrapper { text-align:left; }

BODY -
<div id="wrapper" style="width:760px; top:0; margin:0 auto;
position:relative;">
<div id="layer1" style="width:200px; top: 25px; left:140px;
position:absolute;">blah</div>
<div id="layer2" style="width:180px; top: 136px; left:23px;
position:absolute;">blah</div>
</div>

Try that - an outer relatively positioned division with a width and auto
left and right margins. All interior AP divisions will be centered, yet
retain the
same relative positioning.


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peteneal wrote:

Hi - I am trying to adopt new web standards and convert my existing
table based
web sites to layers and css - what I want to know is how I can get a
layer
positioned centrally on a web page under any browser dimensions!! any
help
would be most apprecated - starting to pull my hair out a little!!!!


Pete,

Despite many skilled developers are using "layers" (the term is actually
"divs" or "divisions". "Layer" is solely a DW word for absoluetly
positioned divs), it's not the "new web standards". Tables are as valid
and there's nothing wrong what so ever to use them. Just ignore some
rather narrow minded people's dogma that "tables are for tabular data":
1) It's entirely up to you to put whatever you want in them. 2) Isn't
"data" text, images, etc?

So, I suggest you build your site the way you feel comfortable with,
i.e. tables, and get it online. Then, you can toy with CSS controlled
divs "on the side" to understand how they work. After that, you can
chose whichever path is most suitable for any individual project: divs,
tables or a combination.

BTW: To center a div, you'd need to warp a div around the entire
content. Make a search for e.g. "wrapper center" or something here:
http://www.proformica.com/google.html

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