Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 09/22/06 03:56

richard wrote:
>
> "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote in message
> news:7f2c8$451341a7$40cba7ac$28982@NAXS.COM...
>> richard wrote:
>>> Actually, I need to know how to put the text in the middle of the
>>> division.
>>> As I did with tables.
>>> Vertical-align doesn't seem to be recognized.
>>>
>>> www.1-small-world.com/index2.html
>>>
>>
>> Look it up for yourself and see why...
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/propidx.html
>>
>> property: 'vertical-align'
>> applies to: inline-level and 'table-cell' elements
>>
>> DIV is neither. You can set DIV to "display: table-cell;" ...but guess
>> what? You guessed it, it will not work in IE. Other options are
>> padding and line-height all a bit messy.
>>
>
> Well check this out then
>
> http://www.wpdfd.com/editorial/thebox/deadcentre4.html
>
> Works good in both IE and FF.
>
>
As I said a bit messy as opposed to:

DIV.deadcenter {
display: table-cell; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;
}

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Take care,

Jonathan
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