<div align="center"> is not working

Hi Guys for some reason (base on my web page design) I need to use "
position:absolute " in this case
<div align="center"> is not working can any body help me

Thanks
Alireza

Here is my sample css code
.PageSet {
position:absolute;
width: 761px;
background-image: url(../images/teram.gif);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
}

arjahan wrote:

Hi Guys for some reason (base on my web page design) I need to use "
position:absolute " in this case
div align="center"> is not working can any body help me

Thanks
Alireza

Here is my sample css code
.PageSet {
position:absolute;
width: 761px;
background-image: url(../images/teram.gif);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
}

What are you centering? A wrapper or what? Why do you need absolute
positioning?

If this is a "wrapper" that holds the page content to center it, try

body {
text-align:center;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;

#pageset {
position:relative;
width:761px;
left:auto;
right:auto;
}

Other than that, how you approach centering using absolute positioning
depends a lot on what the element is and where it is located in terms of
containing boxes.


HTH

Donna Casey | Web Designer/Developer

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Dear Donna

Thank you for your answer let me explain about my project , its a full CSS web
site that have too many <DIV> to control text blocks , pictures and ... I
start with PageSet class as a wrapper and then I have a lot of diffrent <DIV>
inside thisone the problem is if I use relative then netscape will not support
background and height control (because my nested classes) so I need to use
absolute and in this case align center will not work I use a javascript to set
my page marigin to center but the problem is in this case when the user try to
print the page its become a large page and will not fit in one page

Thank you Alireza

You need to center align an absolutely positioned division?

It's not really clear what you are asking.

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"arjahan" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Hi Guys for some reason (base on my web page design) I need to use "
position:absolute " in this case
div align="center"> is not working can any body help me

Thanks
Alireza

Here is my sample css code
.PageSet {
position:absolute;
width: 761px;
background-image: url(../images/teram.gif);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
}

Sorry

You need to center align an absolutely positioned division? YES
or better to say some way to put it in something then center it.

Thank you

You cannot 'center align' an absolutely positioned element, since it is ...
err ... absolutely positioned.

However, you can center align other types of things easily.

Here is a good demonstration -

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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"arjahan" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Sorry

You need to center align an absolutely positioned division? YES
or better to say some way to put it in something then center it.

Thank you