On Jun 14, 2:34 am, Stephen Hansen <me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io> wrote: > HTML+CSS have some very strong advantages. Simplicity is not one of > them. Precision web design these days is a dark art. (Go center an image > vertically and horizontally in an arbitrary sized field!)
I agree, and I know that's a rhetorical question, but here goes.... (I have no idea whether this works in IE though) <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1- strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <style> div { position: absolute; border: 1px solid blue; margin: 10px; } #one { top: 50px; width: 300px; height: 300px; } #two { top: 400px; width: 200px; height: 200px; } img { position: absolute; width:100px; height: 100px; margin: auto; top: 0; bottom: 0; left: 0; right: 0; border: 1px solid red; } </style> </head> <body> <div id="one"><img src="image.jpg" /></div> <div id="two"><img src="image.jpg" /></div> </body> </html> -- Cheers Anton -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list