[Web4lib] HTML question

[Lynne Puckett]

Rick Mason wrote:
> Nope, it is not basic; don't feel dumb.  Figuring that out was a bit of 
> a headache for me when I first encountered it.
> 
> The following, although based on CSS, passes the HTML 4.04 strict and 
> transitional validation at http://validator.w3.org/ :
> 
> <div style="text-align: center;">
> <img alt="alt text" src="imagefile.png">
> </div>
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> Rick
Dear Rick,
Thank you for the idea, but it's not quite right for my situation.
Check out http://www.billings.lib.mt.us/kids.html
The dog-image is supposed to be centered. I used style margins, but that 
only works if a) I get the number of pixels correct and b) everybody who 
looks at it has the same screen resolution I do. If I put the image in a 
separate div, that messes up the text flow. The div it's already in has 
to float left to fit the layout. I have been suffering from this 
delusion that CSS was supposed to make layout easier, so why is a simple 
image-centering so difficult?
I do appreciate your suggestion, but it's just like the old days of 
centering a paragraph in order to center a table or image inside the 
paragraph, and I thought that was supposed to go away.

Lynne
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