- From: Neil Carson <neil@liberate.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:50:20 -0400 (EDT)
- To: "Peter Foti \(PeterF\)" <PeterF@SystolicNetworks.com>
- Cc: <www-style@w3.org>
> If whole1 has 100% width and 100% height, then you want to center
> horizontally and vertically the item(s) in whole1. You should be able
> to do this with the styles above. Of course, it doesn't work. The
> text-align seems to work, but the vertical-align is still top aligned.
vertical-align controls the alignment of things *within a line* - so you'd
need to make sure the single line inside was the height of the entire
container for it to work (and even then, if you follow the spec, it would be
a bit too high by half the parent's x-height (from memory) --- but few seem
to do that).
> And another question... why does text-align use "center" to mean the
> center, and vertical-align uses "middle" to mean the center. Could it
Middle doesn't mean center - go check out the spec in CSS-2. I think for
'center' you mean something like the 'absmiddle' of HTML.
N.
Received on Thursday, 25 October 2001 11:56:57 UTC