CSS - Positioning Div Left Of Center

I'm trying to position the image below vertically center and horizontally left to no avail. Its horizontally left but centers the top of the image in the center of the page. What am I doing wrong?

<DIV style="position: absolute; top: 50%; left: 0px; border: none"><img src="images/right.jpg"></img></DIV>

Hello
I am very new to CSS. One of my problems is that my web experience is only in tools that generate the code. I"m needing what I"m told is a simple thing to do, but not finding it easy for me

I tried to post with some links to my site, etc, but the rules won't let me post any links. I have posted in another CSS site, but fine it very inactive and not getting any help.

What I'm trying to do

All items below to make up the header of the site. A background graphic which fills across the screen, no matter the size of the window. I have this working, although if I shrink the window too far, it overwrites the graphic in item 2 below. A left justified logo graphic. Working fine. A Centered graphic. I have this showing, but it is not quite centered right, and it is a bit smaller than actual, and I cannot get it to space down a bit. (tried padding, does nothing. Trying margin spaces everything down, including item 1 above. A right justified graphic. This shows, but is VERY SMALL, much smaller than original graphic, and it does not right justify.
NOTES
The current code, below, is based on a tutorial I went through, using % for width. The idea being that if it is built based on percent of width, then whatever width of window, it would adjust. I used 900px for original calculations. I find that it only fills the window as if it is 900 px wide. So I redid the percentages based on 1500px.

I've done lots of reading, Googling, and been trying all kinds of stuff and getting not too far with it. Tried px for width too, seems worse.

Here is a print screen of the header:

[IMG]URL[/IMG]

Sigh...sorry...even img code has a url, and even though it showed in preview, I see it will not display it in actual message.

The site I"m working on is shuttermaster.co (not com), where you can see what it looks like now.

CSS Code
Only including the code relevant to the header issue. I do have menu code in CSS, but it is not complete, and I'm not having problems with that.

Code:

	#myHeader {width:auto;height:133px;
		background:url(/photos/i-QXfPgvM/0/S/i-QXfPgvM-S.jpg) repeat-x}

 		#myLogo {
				 float:left;
				 width:10%;
				 height:150px	;
				 margin-left:2.22%;
				 display:inline;
				 background:url(/photos/i-sttGP6Z/1/O/i-sttGP6Z.png) no-repeat}
			   

		#myConame {
				
				width: 15.33%;
				height:90px;
				margin-left:auto;
				margin-right:auto;
				background:url(/photos/i-T3ZjJ8R/2/Th/i-T3ZjJ8R-Th.png) no-repeat}
		
		
		#myBanner {
				float:right;
				width: 29.73%;
				height:150px;
				background:url(/photos/i-BkhSxLJ/1/Th/i-BkhSxLJ-Th.png) no-repeat}

The HTML Code

Code:

<div id="myHeader">
<div id="myLogo"></div>
<div id="myConame"></div>
<div id="myBanner"></div>
<div style="clear: both;"></div>
<div class="menu">
  <ul>
        <li><a href="http://shuttermaster.co">Home</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Portfolio</a></li>
		<li><a class="drop" href="http://shuttermaster.co/galleries" >Galleries
			<!--[if gte IE 7]><!--></a><!--<![endif]-->
			<!--[if lte IE 6]><table><tr><td><![endif]-->
			<ul>	
				<li><a href="http://rogerewingphotography.smugmug.com/Landscapes/Landscapes/19892237_mHBK84">Landscape</a></li>
				<li><a href="Link">Drop 2</a></li>
				<li><a href="Link">Drop 3</a></li>
        </ul> <!--[if lte IE 7]></td></tr></table></a><![endif]-->
   </li>
        <li><a href="#">About Me</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Guestbook</a></li>
  </ul>
</div> 
</div>
<div style="clear: both;"></div>

I hope I have been clear enough. Hoping someone can point me the right direction.

Regards, and thanks....

Hi all,

I'm trying to achieve the following:

<div id="left">This column is of blue background, and stretches all the way to the left.</div>

<div id="center"> THIS COLUMN IS FIXED WIDTH, 760px </div>

<div id="right">This column is of red background, and stretches all the way to the right.</div>

Hope that is self explanatory.. I've Googled all this but can only find solutions for fluid "center" columns with fixed width right/left columns. I'm trying to do the opposite. Could anyone let me know how I can do this?

I've got some messy CSS that definitely needs to be corrected, I'm trying out different things so here's my 'trial& error' code:
Code:

	#left {
		background-color: blue;
		float: left;
		margin: auto;
		position: absolute;
	}
	#center {
 		background: #DFDFEB url(../images/body/top.jpg) no-repeat;
		width: 760px;
		margin: 0 auto;		
	}
	#right {
		background-color: red;
	}

Thanks in advance!

Well.. I just remembered I am a member here... I usually figure out my problems.. but this one is just annoying me...

I haven't really decided on colors or anything.. but I just wanted the basic layout with content on my my site... but I get 1 IE problem....

check it out..
http://centralfloridacomputerrepair.com/test.php

the image all the way to the right works fine in FF... but in IE it's below where it should be, and messes up the whole page.

the css is here
http://centralfloridacomputerrepair.com/style.css
(what you are looking at is div#sidetext)

and the css/xhtml validates
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbo...ir.com/test.php
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/...ir.com/test.php

I just can't figure it out...
I've tried using left: 735px; ... since it's positioned absolute from the top.. but left didnt work with IE either...
it gets to the right place horizontally.. but not vertically...

I tried margin-right with negative.. and it didn't work at all.. it just stayed left all the way.

any ideas?

edit: I've been here a whole year... and this is my first post. HA.

hello

Is it possiable to position an image absolutly using its center as a the measurement refrence as opposed to the upper left corner. If so how would I do this.

Thanks

Nick Carlevaris

OK, I'm back for another CSS lesson - this time on lists.

My site is designed with typical three-column layout. The left and right columns are floated and
the center column contains most of my content. Sometimes in the center column of a page I want
to include a list, either ordered or unordered. This page is a splendid example:
http://stallinswebdesign.com/vs/general_OfficersContactInfo.php.

I do not yet know how to manipulate the positioning of a list (and lots of other block-level things,
truth be told).

1. Can you share with me how to nudge this unordered list (with list-style-type set to none) to
the left a wee bit so that it lies about 1em to the right of that left border?

2. Can you share with me a CSS standards-based technique for marking up the first element of a
list so that it is left-adjusted and all of the following list elements are indented from it (and I
can adjust the amount of indentation), so the list looks like this:
Code:

My Team Euskaltel-Euskadi 2005 Orbea Orca is a kick-tail bike because
     every cyclist knows that orange and black are the fastest colors
     any bike that wins Frame of the Year and Bike of the Year is a winner
     the frame stiffness is top-shelf, and the power transfer is amazing

Or, if one can do that with semantic markup other than lists, please let me know.

Thank you all for looking; I appreciate your effort.

I have the following page.

I need the image and all the ajax to be centered on the page, no matter how the user resizes it. I've tried several different methods, but it always seems to screw up the positioning of the ajax buttons.

Hello,

I am having problems positioning my left menu on non IE browsers, The menu appears fine in IE, can anyone help please, I have attached my code

Code:

body {
 margin:20px;
 background:#ffffff;
 text-align:center;
 padding:0;
 }

#outer {
 text-align:left;
 border:0px solid #000000;
 width:785px;
 margin:auto;
 }

#hdr {
 height:30px;
 background:#ffffff;
 }

#bar {
 height:25px;
 background:#ffffff;
 border:solid #000000;	
 border-width:1px 0 1px 0;
 }

#bodyblock {
 position:relative;
 background: #fffff;
 width:785px;
 padding:0;
 }

#l-col {
width:204px;
height:452px;
		float:left;
		background:#fff;
		background-image:url(images/left.jpg);
		background-repeat:no-repeat;
		padding-bottom:10px; 
		}

#cont {
 width:565px;
 background:#ffffff;
 border:solid #000000;	
 border-width:0 0 0 0px;
 }
 
#middle {
		width:5px;
		float:left;
		background:#fff;
		}

#ftr {
 height:25px;
 background:#c0c0c0;
 border:solid black;
 border-width:1px 0 0 0;
 margin:0;
 }

I'm very new to css positioning so this might be an easy question...


What I'm trying to do happens to position properly in IE6 and Firefox like so:

http://whythrowchip.go.dyndns.org/atx1.jpg


But it doesn't come out properly in IE 5.X , it looks like this:

http://whythrowchip.go.dyndns.org/atx2.jpg


It's know it's probably not an IE 5.X quirk, I guess I'm not supplying the right information to tell it to stay where I want it...


So what's the best way with CSS to make a row of images that lines up side by side and won't break to the next line?


Here is my code now as it stands (I put in three dots in a row in a couple places so there wouldn't be quite so much code pasted here):

Code:

from main page:

<div id="wrapper">
<div id="top_banners"><img src="logo.jpg" width="391" height="106" border="0"><img........</div>
<div id="top_menu">img src="menu1.jpg" width="150" height="20" border="0"><img.........</div>
<div id="content">
<p>Some filler text in here</p>
<p>Some filler text in here</p>
</div>
</div>




entire external style sheet:

body{
background-color:#666666;
color:#000000;
font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
text-align: center;
}

#wrapper{
padding: 0;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
background-color: #EAEAEA;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 750px;
text-align:left;
}

#top_banners{
margin: 0;
padding: 0px;
height: 106px;
}

#top_menu{
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
height: 20px;
}

#content p{
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
margin-left: 20px;
}

any help would be greatly appreciated


ps:the buttons in the second row are rollover gif images done with Dreamweaver, not that that should matter I guess

Hey Guys,

I designed a header logo in the top left corner of my psd document. I am now slicing my design up and I can't seem to be able to position the header into the top left hand corner. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here is my CSS Code:

ul#nav {
height: 91px; width: 271px;
margin:30 auto;
background: url(images/logo.jpg) no-repeat;


}

I've been unable to replicate this issue in IE, but it's plaguing all other "free" browsers I use (Firefox, Galeon, etc.).

Take a look at http://www.skudd.com/blog/view/1370 for example. The bar on the left is floated left, as are the label elements in my comment form. In the li of each form item, I have a br with the clear property set to "left".

What I'm trying to accomplish is I want to clear the previous label, so as to prevent the "stair step" effect. Why would "clear: left;" in this case cause the element to clear everything that has been floated left? What should I try in place of it?

Hello,

I have two columns, one is on the left and another in the middle (center). Left column is where I want it to be, central column is also aligned properly, however, it is below left column. I want it to be on the same level as left.

See here

see how it got below ?

It is XHTML validated and CSS is fine too (some background color warnings).

Plz help me to make central column go up. Thanks.

OK, so I have this nice clean form that I wanted to style up like the table-forms of old. I did it by floating the labels and form elements left, then clearing the labels left so they use their own lines. This works beautifully in Firefox and Safari, but IE (Win, at least) seems to think everything not cleared left should go on the same line! Is this a known IE bug/discrepancy? If so, is there a way to combat it without introducing meaningless elements to the markup (such as encasing each label/element pair in a div)?
Here's some example HTML:
html4strict Code:
Original - html4strict Code <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <title>Test</title> <style type="text/css"> @import url("style.css"); </style> </head> <body> <form name="form" action="test.php" method="post"> <label for="name">Name:</label> <input type="text" name="name" /> <label for="thoughts">Your Thoughts:</label> <textarea name="thoughts"></textarea> <label for="fun">Having fun?</label> <input type="checkbox" name="fun" value="yes" /> </form> </body> </html>

  

  


 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>


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


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


 <head>


 <title>Test</title>


 <style type="text/css">


     @import url("style.css");


 </style>


 </head>


 <body>


  


 <form name="form" action="test.php" method="post">


     <label for="name">Name:</label>


         <input type="text" name="name" />


     <label for="thoughts">Your Thoughts:</label>


         <textarea name="thoughts"></textarea>


     <label for="fun">Having fun?</label>


         <input type="checkbox" name="fun" value="yes" />


 </form>


  


 </body>


 </html> 

And the CSS:
css Code:
Original - css Code label { display: block; float: left; clear: left; width: 8em; margin-right: .5em; text-align: right; } input, textarea { display: block; float: left; }

  

  


 label {


     display: block;


     float: left;


     clear: left;


     width: 8em;


     margin-right: .5em;


     text-align: right;


 }


 input,


 textarea {


     display: block;


     float: left;


 } 

I always seem to run into this problem and somehow get it fixed but this time I am stuck.

I have a main wrapper and 2 footers that line up together and are all floated to the left. I'm trying to put in a column to their right that runs vertical called "right", to be spaced out about 110 px from the top of the page so it sits vertically below the banner and the navs. I tried giving it a left margin to clear the floated DIV's but to no avail. You can see the page he http://yourthreshold.com/playground/ It seems to clear in Firefox but not in IE ..

The main CSS:

Code:

* {
 margin: 0;
 padding: 0;
}

body {
margin:0;
padding:0;
background-color:#e5e5e5;
}

#wrapper {
width: 640px;
height: 720px;
margin-left:0;
margin-top:0;
border: 2px solid gray;
border-bottom: 0px solid gray;
background-image:url(../images/banner.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-color:#c0c0c0;
float:left;
}

	#navigation {
	width: 640px;
	height: 22px;
	background-color:#c9c9c9;
	margin-top: 88px;
	}
	
	#insidewrapper {
	height:auto;
	width:99%;
	margin: 6px 1px 4px 1px;
	}

		/* Begin Left Side Info Boxes */
		#sidebar {
		width:150px;
		height:600px;
		margin-left:2px;
		float:left;
		border:1px solid #666666;
		border-bottom:0px;
		font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
		font-size:9px;
		color:#666666;
		background-color:#ffffff;
		}
		
			.infobox {
			height:123px;
			font:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
			font-size:9px;
			padding:3px;
			border-top:0px;
			border-left:0px;
			border-right:0px;
			}
				.infopic {
				margin-top:9px;
				}
				
			.infobutton {
			height:20px;
			border-bottom:1px solid #666666;
			padding-left:3px;
			}
				
		/* Begin Main Content */
		#maincontent {
		width:465px;
		height:593px;
		margin-left:158px;
		border:1px solid;
		border-color:#666666;
		font:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
		font-size:12px;
		color:#333333;
		padding:3px;
		background-image:url(../images/background_trans2.gif);
		background-repeat:no-repeat;
		background-position:center;
		background-color:#ffffff;
		}
			/* Main Content for pages with textual content */
			#content {
			width:97%;
			height:auto;
			padding:5px;
			}

			/* Main Content for pages with products */
			#productWrapper {
			height:auto;
			width:100%;
			margin-top:10px;
			}
			
			#productLeft {
			height:auto;
			width:115px;
			float:left;
			}
			
			#productMiddle {
			height:auto;
			width:200px;
			margin-left:1px;
			float:left;
			}
			
			#productRight {
			height:auto;
			width:auto;
			}
	
	/* Begin Footer */
	#footerlinks, #footer {
	width:640px;
	height:auto;
	text-align:center;
	float:left;
	}
	
	#footerlinks {
	border-right: 2px solid gray;
	border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
	border-left: 2px solid gray;
	background-color:#c0c0c0;
	font:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:9px;
	letter-spacing:1px;
	color:#555555;
	padding-bottom:4px;
	}
	
	#footer {
	margin-left:0;
	margin-top:0;
	margin-bottom:15px;
	padding-top:8px;
	border-top: 0px;
	border-right: 2px solid gray;
	border-bottom: 2px solid gray;
	border-left: 2px solid gray;
	font:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size:9px;
	color:#555555;
	background-color:#a9a9a9;
	}
	
	/* Begin Rightside Column */
	#right {
	border: 1px solid orange;
	width:195px;
	margin-left:650px;
	padding-top:111px;
	}