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Absolute Positioning Pushing Content

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braves07

braves07

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Apr 24, 2007
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I'm trying to absolute position a background image inside a #div redcircle. The problem I'm having is when I position it at top: 0 left 0 it is pushing the background image in my #div top down about 30px; (In Firefox, IE7 displays correct) Here is my code, any help would be appreciated.

Code: 
body {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #000000;
background-color:#333333;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

#container {
width: 720px;
height: auto;
margin: 0px auto;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
color: #000000;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
}

#top {
width: 720px;
height: 185px;
background-image: url(images/black_bg1.gif);
background-repeat: repeat;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

#redcircle {
position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px;
height: 185px;
width: 359px;
background-image: url(images/red_circle.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

h1 {
color: #FFFFFF;
text-align: right;
margin-right: 20px;
}

h2 {
color: #FFFFFF;
margin: 20px 5px 10px 5px;
font-size: 22px;
}

Code: 
<body>
	
	<div id="container">
	
		<div id="top">
			<h1>Company Name</h1>
		</div>
		
		<div id="redcircle">
			<h2>Point 1</h2>
			<h2>Point 2</h2>
			<h2>Point 3</h2>
		</div>
	
	</div>
	
</body>

Thanks again for your time.

braves07
 
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Just a guess, but using the following should sort this out...

Code: 
#top {
width: 720px;
height: 185px;
[s]background-image: url(images/black_bg1.gif);
background-repeat: repeat;[/s]
[!]background: url(images/black_bg1.gif) top left repeat;[/!]
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

#redcircle {
position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px;
height: 185px;
width: 359px;
[s]background-image: url(images/red_circle.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;[/s]
[!]background: url(images/red_circle.png) top left no-repeat;[/!]
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

Let us know how you go!

Cheers,
Jeff

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Try it without headings inside the divs. It might be that default margins working together with collapsing margins could be what is troubling you.

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I had tried changing margins on my h1 earlier w/o any luck, however I added additional information, went back and tried 1 more time to change margins and padding in my h1 and it worked perfect. Thanks for your replies I'm definately going to take your thoughts into consideration with further development.

thanks

braves07
 
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