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Re: text over image - why is this page so tall?

  • Subject: Re: text over image - why is this page so tall?
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 14:21:34 +0100
  • Newsgroups: alt.html
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / Manchester University
  • References: <dcd9d3$hsd$1@online.de>
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Greg N. wrote:

> Hi,
> please have a look at the example at
> http://coolhaus.de/misc/text-over-image.htm
> 
> The content of this page should nicely fit in the browser window, yet
> the page has a vertical scroll bar, and it appears to be much taller
> than necessary.
> 
> What makes this page so tall, and how can I avoid this effect?
> 
> This is the source code:
> -------------------------
> 
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
> <html>
> <body>
> <div style="position: relative; margin-bottom:90px;
>       top:90px; z-index: 1; ">
>    <img src="http://coolhaus.de/misc/troll1.jpg";
>       alt="sample image" title="">
> </div>
> <div style=" position: relative; top: -400px; z-index: 2;
>       font-size: xx-large">
>    <br>this<br>text<br>to be<br>placed<br>over<br>the<br>image.
> </div>
> </body></html>

Have a look at:

http://www.schestowitz.com/temp/troll.htm

Your second element (the text) is positioned below the image and has an
/offset/ which forces it to overlap the image. You can see this clearly
when setting the second div's top-position to 0 pixels. You will need to
redesign it or accept the vertical scroll bars.

Roy

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