Posted by dorayme on 11/21/07 21:17

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<XRY0j.126749$kj1.59112@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote:

> Travis Newbury wrote:
>
> > <celof...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Using CSS I want to center a DIV on the page and always keep it 3px
> >> from the top. Seems simple but I cannot find a cross-browser
> >> solution to this problem. I can get to work in IE or FF but not both
> >> w/o relaxing the 3px from the top constraint. Can someone offer a
> >> solution to this problem?
> >
> > With out a URL to see what you are doing I will just have to guess
> > what you code looks like. So I say you are missing a ":" in the CSS.
> >
> > Any one else want to take a guess?
>
> Three pixels, eh?
> http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/threepxtest.html ?
>
> But as you say, Travis, without a URL to the page, everything is a
> guess.

I'll bite. If it is a vertical margin, I would say to make sure
you zero margins and paddings, up to but not necessarily as
drastic as

* {margin: 0; padding:0;}

and then set explicit margins and that way you will increase your
chances of browsers behaving similarly.

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dorayme

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