CSS - How To Vertically Align 3 Elements

OK, I have three images: a top, middle, and bottom that need to align vertically. It should look like a typewriter with paper coming out when said and done. You can see what's wrong at csshore(dot)com Here is the css:

#top {
background:url(images/top.gif) no-repeat;
background-position:50%;
width: 617px;
float:none;
margin:0 auto;
height: 55px;
position: relative;
}

#container {
background:url(images/middle.gif) repeat-y;
background-position:center;
width: 601px;
padding:0;
margin:0 auto;
height: 100%;
position: relative;
min-height:600px;
}

#bottom {
background:url(images/bottom.gif) no-repeat;
background-position:50%;
width: 800px;
height:485px;
margin:0 auto;
position: relative;
}

.center {
background-image:url(images/wood014.jpg);
}

And the html:

<div id="top" class="center"></div>
<div id="container" class="center">When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for a people to through off the reigns of governement and create a new one. </div>
<div id="bottom" class="center"></div>

Ignore the failed attempt to quote the Declaration of Independence. I have tried everything I know (which admittedly is little) and I can't get them to align.

Thanks in advance.

What I'm wanting is for the links to be in the middle of the div vertically. Currently it's at the top. I've tried using vertical-align but that doesn't work. What am I missing here?

asp.net
firefox 3.6.11


CSS
Code:

#headercont
{
	width:auto;
	height:100px;
	text-align:center;
	background-image:url('images/headbg.png');
}
#connav
{	
	vertical-align:middle;
}
#connav ul
{
	position:relative;
	list-style-type:none;
	list-style-image:none;
}
#connav li 
{
	display:inline;
}
#connav ul li a 
{
	text-decoration:none;
	margin: 4px;
	padding: 5px 20px 5px 20px;
	color:#ccff00;
	background-color:#61a003;
}

HTML (inside the body tags)
Code:

<div id="headercont">
	<div id="connav">
		<ul >
		<li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
		<li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
		<li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
		</ul>
	</div>
</div>   

Greetings,

I've set an anchor tag to display:block and have set the height to 80px. Unfortunately, it seems I am unable to move the text associated within the hyperlink to the middle (vertically) of the block. Any ideas on how this can be done?

I have a div with blue background on the page below. It is is currently displaying horitzontally across the screen, with the images inside doing the same.

I would like to vertically align it along the right side of the page, next to the text (which would be on the left). I'd also like the 'Property Search' within the blue, aligned below the photo of the house.

Can anyone help me out?

I'd like to KNOW how to do it and not have someone just send me an updated style sheet. Thanks.

Styles attached.

http://mulqueenconsulting.com/galese/

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I'm stumped. Cannot find a solution here. Is it possible to vertically align a form field inside a DIV in IE6? It works fine everywhere else. (Big shock...)

Thank you for any help you can give. I've resolved to using tables temporarily. Ughhh.

Here's a snippet of the CSS:

Code:

body { background-color: #e2e4d7; background-image: url("../images/fade_top.gif"); background-repeat: repeat-x; margin: 0; padding: 0 }
#wrapper  { margin: 12px auto; width: 796px }
#top    { background-image: url("../images/main_top.gif"); background-repeat: no-repeat; width: 796px; height: 8px; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: bottom }
#main { background-image: url("../images/main_back.gif"); background-repeat: repeat-y; width: 796px; overflow: hidden }
#header { background-image: url("../images/header_back.gif"); background-repeat: no-repeat; width: 796px; height: 262px }
#nav { margin-right: 8px; margin-left: 8px; width: 780px; height: 60px }
#nav ul { list-style-type: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 780px }
#nav li { float: left }
#nav li a { display: block; padding-top: 60px; height: 0; overflow: hidden }
...
#banner { margin-right: 8px; margin-left: 8px; width: 780px; height: 202px; overflow: hidden }
#bannerLeft   { background-image: url("../images/banner_logo.gif"); background-repeat: no-repeat; position: relative; width: 316px; height: 202px; float: left }
#searchBox   { line-height: 53px; text-align: center; position: absolute; top: 149px; width: 316px; height: 53px }
#searchField     { margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 196px; vertical-align: middle }
#searchButton   { margin: 0 0 0 6px; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle }
#bannerRight { background-image: url("../images/banner_photo.jpg"); background-repeat: no-repeat; width: 464px; height: 202px; float: right }
...

And here's a snippet of the HTML:
Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html lang="en" xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" />
		<title></title>
		<link href="css/stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all"/>
	</head>

	<body>
		<div id="wrapper">
			<div id="top"></div>
			<div id="main">
				<div id="header">
					<div id="nav">
						<ul>
						...
						</ul>					</div>
					<div id="banner">
						<div id="bannerLeft">
							<form action="http://www.google.com/search" method="get">
<input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8">
<input type="hidden" name="oe" value="UTF-8">
<input type="hidden" name="domains" value="http://www.whmca.com">
<input type="hidden" name="sitesearch" value="http://www.whmca.com">
<div id="searchBox">
	<input id="searchField" type="text" name="q"><input id="searchButton" name="btnG" type="image" src="images/search_bt.gif" alt="Search" height="14" width="42">
</div>
</form>						</div>
						<div id="bannerRight"></div>
					</div>
				</div>
				<div id="body">
				...
				</div>
			</div>
			<div id="bottom"></div>
			<div id="copyright">
			...
			</div>
		</div>
	</body>

</html>

I am designing this page:

theticketsguide.com/sample

Scroll down to where the text reads, "Easy Navigation." I have (more or less) managed to vertically align this text with the image next to it, but I used padding instead of a cleaner, more exact "vertical-align" function. I've tried to put

vertical-align:middle

for the text, but it doesn't do anything. Any help as to what the right solution is to this? I don't want to use padding.

Thanks,

Brandon

Set margin:0px;

ok.

Ive been trying to use CSS to style my page instead of tables. but I cant get stuff to line up right.

basically I have a div spanning the whole width of a css box. inside that div I have 3 sections, one for left-aligned text, one for center aligned text and one for right aligned text.

what I want is to display on the far left a left arrow image (for use as a button) and the word 'Previous'. then in the middle of the div, center aligned, I want to display the words 'select a different draw' and on the right hand side, right aligned I want the word 'Next' followed by my right arrow. EASY PEASY I thought.

Well it has taken me an hour to realise that I have to set my parent element to position: relative for the left middle and right elements to use absolute without going to the very top of the page. so at least I now have them along in a line.

What I have found is that the the text on the left and right is vertically aligned to the BOTTOM edge of the image and the text in the middle has been vertically aligned to the TOP of the image despite all 4 css classes being defined as vertical-align: middle;

please tell me where I am going wrong, I'm loosing my marbles here!

--html:

Code:

	<div id="width-100">
		<div id="third-left">
			<img src="images/arrowleft.png" alt="foo"/>
			Previous
		</div>
		<div id="third-middle">
			Select a different draw
		</div>
		<div id="third-right">
			Next
			<img src="images/arrowright.png" alt="foo"/>
		</div>
	</div>

--css:
Code:

#third-left {
	width: 30%;
	text-align: left;
	vertical-align: middle;
	}
	
#third-middle {
	position: absolute;
	top: 0px;
	margin: 0 35% 0 35%;
	width: 30%;
	vertical-align: middle;
	text-align: center;
	}

#third-right {
	position: absolute;
	top: 0px;
	right: 0px;
	width: 30%;
	text-align: right;
	vertical-align: middle;
	}

#width-100 {
	width: 100%;
	position: relative;
	vertical-align: middle;
	background: white;
	}

any thoughts?

Thanks,
Ben

I have a custome bullet for an LI...my issue is...when this displays, the bullet displays at the top of the line height. Is there a way to adjust this so that the bullet appears in center of the line height?

Hello, I have this small problem with aligning two elemets. I want the other element to be left aligned and the other right aligned.

This is how it looks like

Code:

<div class="links">
   <div class="name">Kimppa</div>
   <div class="date">10/20/05</div>
</div>

<style>
.links {
   width: 700px;
}

.name {
   // Left-align this element
}

.date  {
  // Right-align this element
}
</style>

Both the name and date elements must be horizontally on the same line (so no line breaks).

Any idea how I could do this?

Hello all,

I'm having a bit of trouble with a list of relative, floated <li> elements, each containing a single absolutely positioned div that appears on hover. I'm using the :hover pseudo-class currently but I will use JavaScript for IE6 once it displays correctly.

The code is below. The problem is that the <div> appears on top of it's parent element but behind all other elements.

Code:

		#wrapper-body ul.staff-list{
			list-style-type:none;
			padding-top:10px;
			position:relative;
		}
	
		#wrapper-body ul.staff-list-team{ width:313px; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:15px; margin-bottom:20px; border-bottom:1px solid #d7e3a9; }
	
			#wrapper-body ul.staff-list li{
				float:left;
				width:230px;
				position:relative;
				padding:8px 0 8px 15px;
				z-index:1;
			}
			#wrapper-body ul.staff-list-team li{ width:151px; padding-left:0; padding-left:5px; }
			#wrapper-body ul.staff-list-team li.right{ padding-left:5px; }
			#wrapper-body ul.staff-list-clerks li{ float:none; width:310px; padding-left:5px; }
			#wrapper-body ul li.highlight{ background-color:#f4f6ec; }
				#wrapper-body ul.staff-list li p{
					padding:0 0 9px 0;
					margin-left:91px;
				}
	
				#wrapper-body ul.staff-list li small{
					padding:0 0 5px 0;
					margin-left:91px;
				}
		
				#wrapper-body ul.staff-list-clerks li span{
					color:#A6302B;
					display:block;
					float:left;
				}
		
				#wrapper-body ul.staff-list-clerks li span.clerk-name{ width:140px; }
				#wrapper-body ul.staff-list-clerks li span.clerk-phone{ width:120px; background:url(../img/structure/clerks-phone.gif) 0 2px no-repeat; padding-left:23px; }
				#wrapper-body ul.staff-list-clerks li a.clerk-email{ display:block; float:left; height:16px; width:16px; background:url(../img/structure/clerks-mail.gif) 0 3px no-repeat; }
		
		
				#wrapper-body ul.staff-list li div.staff-list-detail{
					display:none;
					background:url(../img/structure/staff-list-bottom.gif) left bottom repeat-x;
					padding-bottom:3px;
					margin-top:-15px;
					left:4px;
					z-index:10;
					top:15px;
					position:absolute;
				}

				#wrapper-body ul.staff-list li div.staff-list-detail a{ background:url(../img/structure/staff-list-bullet.gif) no-repeat 0 4px; padding-left:8px; }

				#wrapper-body ul.staff-list li:hover div.staff-list-detail{
					display:block;
}

An image of what is happening below:


Thanks for reading!

I have a header wrapper for a column heading that sets the width and background of the column header. In that column header I have a tag for the header title, which is aligned left.

Know, I find that the customer wants to add an "As of Date", on the same line, but wants it aligned right.

Is this even possible to do? I cannot seem to come up with the correct .css code that would allow me to do this.

html code

Code:

<div class="wide_column_header"><span class="headerbartext">Make Your Enrollment Selection</span><span class="headerbartextright">As of 3/31/2008</span></div>

css tags:
Code:

.wide_column_header {
  float:left;
  width:558px;
  margin:0 0 0 5px;
  background-image:url(../images/wide_header.jpg);
  height:21px;
  font-size:100%;
  font-weight:900;
  line-height:100%;
  vertical-align:bottom;
  color:#fff;}

.headerbartext {
  font-size: 12px;
  font-weight:bold;
  text-align:right;
  padding-left:15px;
  line-height: 140%;}

.headerbartextright {
  font-size: 12px;
  font-weight:bold;
  text-align:right;
  padding-right:15px;
  line-height: 140%;}

Hey everyone, my first time exploring page layouts using CSS and I'm having a few problems.

I have a simple page with separate Header, Navigation and Content divs stacked on top of each other inside of a wrapper div (used to align the three to the center), with another div for the Footer placed below everything else.

Here's how it looks now:

Code:

<html> <head> <title>CSS Divisions</title>  <style type="text/css">  #Wrapper { 	width:800px; 	margin-left:auto; 	margin-right:auto; 	text-align:left; } 	  #Header { 	width:800px; 	height:120px; 	background:#FC6;}  #PNav { 	width:800px; 	height:40px; 	float:left; 	background:#CCC; }  #Content { 	width:800px; 	height:400px; 	float:left; 	overflow:hidden; 	background:#FFC; }  #Footer { 	width:100%; 	height:80px; 	float:left; 	text-align:center; 	background-color:#FC6; }   </style>  </head>  <body>  <div id="Wrapper"> <div id="Header">Header</div> <div id="PNav">Navigation</div> <div id="Content">Content</div> </div> <div id="Footer">Footer</div>   </body> </html>

Ideally what I want is for the page to look exactly how it is, but with the footer stretching from the bottom of the Content div, down to the bottom of the wherever the user's browser has loaded; basically to fill the vertical remainder of the screen.

I've tried setting the footer height to 100%, but that forces the page to extend vertically, and I fumbled around with about a dozen other techniques not really knowing what I was doing, and I've had no luck so far.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I started out working out a page thinking this *should* do what I want and lo and behold it did work in IE6

http://www.fogcat.co.uk/example/test002.html

But when looking at Firefox it goes all odd. If you remove all the internal "imagediv" div from the "imagechunk" div it nearly works but doesn't algin the "link text" like IE.

I'm told that display:inline-block is not properly supported, which is probably the root of my problems.

What I want a set of divs down the page (the "imagedivs") Each div will contain

An image - but that image will be nested inside a div - it's returned that way from a php function. Images may be of varying height so I can't use pixel values at top margins or anything like that. A link to another page The link should be positioned to the right of the image and aligned vertically with the centre of the image.

This is one of those things that's a doddle with tables, but I'm
trying to train myself to think CSS.

What obvious thing am I over looking?

Code:

+--------------------------------------+
| +----------------+                   |
| | .............. |                   |     ---  <div>
| | :            : |                   |     ...  <img>
| | :            : |   Link here       |
| | :            : |                   |
| | .............. |                   |
| +----------------+                   |
+--------------------------------------+
   
+--------------------------------------+
| +----------------+                   |
| | .............. |                   |    
| | :            : |                   |    
| | :            : |   Link here       |
| | :            : |                   |
| | .............. |                   |
| +----------------+                   |
+--------------------------------------+