legend in fieldset, position horizontally as centrified

[Marek Mänd]

Can the legend element in fieldset be placed automatically by Mozilla
horizontally in the middle of fieldset?

[Brian]

Re: legend in fieldset, position horizontally as centrified

Marek Mänd wrote:[color=blue]
> Can the legend element in fieldset be placed automatically by Mozilla
> horizontally in the middle of fieldset?[/color]

Maybe. What have you tried? I'd start with text-align: center on
fieldset. You might also try positioning:

fieldset {position: relative;}
legend
{position: absolute;
left: 50%;
width: 10em;
margin-left: -5em
}

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[Marek Mänd]

Re: legend in fieldset, position horizontally as centrified

Brian wrote:[color=blue]
> Marek Mänd wrote:[color=green]
>> Can the legend element in fieldset be placed automatically by Mozilla
>> horizontally in the middle of fieldset?[/color]
> Maybe. What have you tried?[/color]

In Opera7.54 setting
margin-right:auto makes the legend to be on the left
margin-left:auto makes the legend to be on the right

margin-left:auto margin-right:auto makes the legend to be in the center.

Opera doesnt honour explicit pixel values like
margin-left:30px

Mozilla 1.72 aswell as IE6 do honour explicit pixel values for
margin-left, yet they doent understand the margin auto stuff.


I'd start with text-align: center on[color=blue]
> fieldset. You might also try positioning:
>
> fieldset {position: relative;}
> legend
> {position: absolute;
> left: 50%;
> width: 10em;
> margin-left: -5em
> }[/color]

Your proposed along with mine code (601 bytes)

http://www.hot.ee/idaliiga/testcases/fieldset/centrify_legend.htm

shows that your proposed solution will not likely work in current Mozillas.