On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 25, 2009, at 7:18 PM, "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org>
> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Brad Kemper < <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
> brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Wouldn't it be useful in case where you had, say, a logo watermark image
>> centered behind a paragraph, and you didn't want it to be clipped or resized
>> if the text was not enough lines to ensure otherwise, and you didn't want
>> the paragraph to have a min-height?
>>
>
> You could use something like this:
> p {
> position:relative;
> z-index:0;
> }
> p::before {
> position:absolute;
> z-index:-1;
> content:url(logo.png);
> left:0;
> right:0;
> width:256px;
> margin-left:auto;
> margin-right:auto;
> }
>
> Rob
>
>
> Yeah, I guess so. Kind of complicated and less intuitive for authors. More
> complicated for implementors otherwise.
>
It's only complicated because CSS absolute positioning makes centering an
element unnecessarily painful. *That* should be fixed.
Rob
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