having something in the middle of the screen.....

[windandwaves]

Hi,

I would like to position a site in the "middle" of the screen, both
horizontally and vertically.

I would do this by having a "wrapper" div with

{
left: 50%;
top: 50%;
margin-top: - [half the height];
margin-left: - [half the width];
}

This works fine, EXCEPT when the browser viewable area is smaller than
the width or the height of the wrapper. In this case, what I would
like to happen is that the wrappers sits against the top or the left
of the viewable area and that a scrollbar helps the user to see the
parts of the screen that are cut off.....

In the old days, with tables, you could achieve just this by having a
table as wrapper. The code goes something like this:

<table width="100%" height="100%">
<tr valign="middle" >
<td align="center">
inner div with your actual website.....
</td>
</tr>
</table>

How can I achieve the ideas above without using a table???? or should
I just use a table.

Thank you

[Bergamot]

Re: having something in the middle of the screen.....

Ben C wrote:

>
position: absolute;
left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;

Note that IE doesn't grok this. IE6 doesn't for sure. I don't know if it
was fixed in IE7, but I suspect not.

--
Berg

[windandwaves]

Re: having something in the middle of the screen.....

On Jul 21, 11:31 pm, Bergamot <berga...@visi. comwrote:

Ben C wrote:
>

position: absolute;
left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;

>
Note that IE doesn't grok this. IE6 doesn't for sure. I don't know if it
was fixed in IE7, but I suspect not.
>
--
Berg

Hi,

Thanks for all your replies. I get the feeling that basically, the
best solution is to keep using the old table system, because if IE6
does not support it then you can't really use it yet - right?

Thank again for all your replies.

Nicolaas