[BNM] [BMN] CSS conundrum. With pictures.

[Ali]

use a container div with central alignment

hth

ali

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Taylor" <nick at tangerineworks.com>
To: "Brighton New Media" <bnmlist at brightonnewmedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:21 PM
Subject: [BNM] [BMN] CSS conundrum. With pictures.


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> Ok - css query. I thought these had gone out of fashion, but apparently 
> not.
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> How... do you get a load of icons to float left inside a centrally
> floated thing? So if there's a load of them that stack up politely, and
> if there's only a couple, they sit in the middle.
>
> eg:
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> http://www.weirdsky.com/icons1.gif
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> See... they float left
>
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> http://www.weirdsky.com/icons2.gif
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> but when there's only a few of them they go to the centre.
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> What we're doing at the moment is wrapping the whole lot in a table...
> which automatically adjusts its width to be the same as what it's
> containing. Which works like magic (for that is what it is) until you've
> got a slow connection... then everything turns into a long column.
>
> Note that the height of the containing thing is dictated by the number
> of icons... so no absolute positioning etc.
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> How the feck do you do that then?
>
> There must be a sensible solution etc.
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> n
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