Vertical Alignment

[Jim Heavey]

If I have a table and i want to vertically center the information in a
single cell, How would I do this?

Thanks in advance for your assistance!!!!!!!!!

 

[Steve R.]

Jim Heavey wrote in message ...

If I have a table and i want to vertically center the information in a
single cell, How would I do this?

I use this ...

valign="middle"

 

[David Dorward]

If I have a table and i want to vertically center the information in a
single cell, How would I do this?

vertical-align: middle;

applied to that cell using which even technique you prefer, such as a class
selector or id selector.

See also http://dorward.me.uk/www/css/#tutorials

It does seem odd that you only want to change this presentation on one cell,
are you perhaps abusing table data cells as a layout hack?

http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Tableless_layouts

 

[Els]

If I have a table and i want to vertically center the information in a
single cell, How would I do this?

Thanks in advance for your assistance!!!!!!!!!

eh.. it should by default center vertically already...

 

[Kris]

If I have a table and i want to vertically center the information in a
single cell, How would I do this?

Thanks in advance for your assistance!!!!!!!!!

eh.. it should by default center vertically already...[/QUOTE]

In some browsers. In others it doesn't.
Use CSS vertical-align property on the table cell. If you don't mind to
burn in hell, use the valign attribute on the cell.

 

[Els]

eh.. it should by default center vertically already...

In some browsers. In others it doesn't.[/QUOTE]

Didn't know that. In which browsers it doesn't? (will have
to check my own pages again in those)

Use CSS vertical-align property on the table cell. If you don't mind to
burn in hell, use the valign attribute on the cell.

Well, I would mind, actually, it's just that I feel being
'burned' in alt.html isn't very much like hell ;-)

(but I still use CSS instead, just for my own comfort)

 

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Didn't know that. In which browsers it doesn't?

If a table cell is not vertically centered by default, then the browser
violates the HTML 4 specification. I don't know of any such browser.

Oddly enough, HTML 4 does not use SGML to specify the default (the DTD
says just #IMPLIED) but the prose says it very clearly:

"middle: Cell data is centered vertically within the cell. This is the
default value."

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#adef-valign

 

[Kris]

In some browsers. In others it doesn't.

Didn't know that. In which browsers it doesn't? (will have
to check my own pages again in those)[/QUOTE]

I have to apologize for a too quick conclusion. I remember seeing at
least one (old) browser (could have been one of the Netscape 4 family)
that put it at the top of a cell by default. I could have misled myself.

Jukka's reply clears it up, also for me.

However, not that the default would matter much if one would use tables
for what they are made for.

Again, my apologies.

Well, I would mind, actually, it's just that I feel being
'burned' in alt.html isn't very much like hell ;-)

Actually, it was more of a hint to the OP, not you. I know you are a
Bearer Of The Light.

 

[Els]

Els <[email protected]> wrote:

[snip too many apologies ;-)]

Actually, it was more of a hint to the OP, not you.

Yeah, I figured that, just felt like replying anyway

I know you are a Bearer Of The Light.

lol

Didn't see (or read) any LOTR, but it sounds like a term
from there :-D

 

[Kris]

[snip too many apologies ;-)]

And you have too many smileys in your posts!

lol

Didn't see (or read) any LOTR, but it sounds like a term
from there :-D

Now that you mention it, yes. I recall Gandalf the wizard is called
something like that. Are you, like some of my friends, the kind that
refuses to see the movie before reading the book but just doesn't have
the time to start reading? Teehee.

 

[Els]

[snip too many apologies ;-)]

And you have too many smileys in your posts!

I noticed... :-( ;-) :-D

Now that you mention it, yes. I recall Gandalf the wizard is called
something like that. Are you, like some of my friends, the kind that
refuses to see the movie before reading the book but just doesn't have
the time to start reading? Teehee.

No, it's not that, more like I don't think I will like the
book/story/film enough to make an effort at sitting down to
read/see it...

Saw Finding Nemo last Saturday though.
My excuse: two little kids. (no smiley here)