CSS Stress : Part 1 in an occasional series

By Mark on Tuesday 29 April 2003 at 12:59

Today I will be mostly struggling with CSS once again; in particular, vertical alignment.

WHY ON EARTH is there nothing in the W3C specs about this? Ok, so we have text-align, but even that doesn't work in half the browsers I've tried it in.

I cannot believe how difficult it is to lay things out with CSS. Something that would have taken me 30 seconds with a centered table, has now turned into an hour-long festival of workarounds and cursing, checking and rechecking in 6 different browsers until I get something that looks even remotely similar across all of them.

Admittedly this is partly because I'm so used to tables, but it's also due to the woeful support for something as simple as vertical alignment.

I think I'll give up web development and become a print designer… at least you don't have to contend with buggy versions of paper.

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