Re: Designing with tables and spacer GIFs

Vertical centering! Yay!



Michael Zeltner wrote:
> hey jakob
> 
> Jakob Åberg wrote:
> 
>> First of all, thanks to all of you who have been doing some very 
>> impressive
>> work in developing Plone. I'm new to this list and quite new to Zope / 
>> Plone
>> as well. I love it so far. I'll do my best to contribute with my 
>> experiences
>> once I get a hang on it.
>>
>> So far everything is going fine. I have some problems though finding 
>> my way
>> through all the CSS-styles. I'm trying to do a very exact design where
>> everything is positioned to the pixel. This would be a simple task using
>> div-layers, but since I'm using a centered design I had to go for 
>> tables and
>> spacer gifs.
> 
> 
> you can center divs aswell: 
> http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/basic_centered.html
> http://www.mezzoblue.com/tests/centered-css/
> 
> joe geldart (Arnia on irc - #plonedesign if you're interested) mentioned 
> a technique where you can center even vertically: 
> http://www.wpdfd.com/editorial/thebox/deadcentre4.html
> 
> so no need for tables :) we wouldn't claim to be so flexible with css if 
> this wasn't possible ;)
> 
>> The first row that should be two pixels high renders as about 10 pixels
>> high.
> 
> 
> actually, i don't know how to use tables anymore (yes thats really true) 
> so i can't help you with the code snippet :)
> 
>> I tried to remove "plone.css", which obviously ruins most of the 
>> design, but
>> it made the blank row look like intended. Does anyone know if there is a
>> style that set a margin to images or table cells or something? Was this
>> intended to be done in some other way? I've seen examples of people who
>> apply a text style to blank spaces, with font-size and line-height set to
>> one pixel...
> 
> 
> i don't exactly see what you mean - i don't think we're applying 
> anything on tables or images.
> 
> regards, michael




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