[thelist] VERY basic CSS question

Tue May 18 11:54:16 CDT 2004

dunno

but ascii art rules

;)

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On 18 May 2004, at 17:30, Rob Smith wrote:

> Hey,
>
> There's my css:
>
> <style type="text/css">
> body {
> 	background: #fff url(back.jpg) repeat-x  top;
> 	width: 760px;
> 	margin: 0px;
> 	padding: 0px;
> 	}
> div.container {
> 	background: #fff url(mainback.jpg) no-repeat ;
> 	margin: 0px;
> 	padding: 55px;
> 	width: 760px;
> 	height: 470px;
> 	align: center;
> 	}
> </style>
>
> Here's my body:
>
> <body>
> 	<div class="container">
>   		<img src="title.gif">
> 		Hello World
> 	</div>
> </body>
>
> For the life of me I cannot get the "container"'s background image to 
> be
> centered on the page:
>
> +---------+----+  +--+----------+--+
> |   is    |    |  |  |   want   |  |
> |         |    |  |  |          |  |
> +---------+    |  |  +----------+  |
> |              |  |                |
> |              |  |                |
> +--------------+  +----------------+
>
> What am I missing?
>
>
> Rob Smith
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