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**Archie** · 11-07-2004, 07:13 PM

I'm new to CSS but I've got a simple grasp of how to design with it. I really love it but I ran into trouble on my design (you may have seen it before on a tutorial), I just finished the tutorial and decided to run with what I had learned, but I ran into a stopsign

http://www.arnoldesign.com/surrealvision/index.html

As you can see, everything seems fine except for one big problem. Those points that show up behind the center panel (#main-content) are an image, and I want them to show up in FRONT of the #main-content. The only way I could achieve it was to put the <div id="banner"> AFTER the <div id="main-content"> and give the #banner a huge negative margin-top. This won't work however, because the <div id="main-content"> won't always be the same height, and so that negative margin I gave the banner will only work for this precise page.

If I move the <div id="banner"> back above the <div id="main-content"> and give the #main-content a negative margin it puts the banner and the content in the right place, but the banner is still behind the content section. I'm sure there's a simple tag for the CSS to fix this but I don't know it.

Heres the CSS file...

Code:

/*this is the core design*/
 body {
 margin:0px;
 background-color:#000000;
 color:#ffffff;
 font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 font-size:1em;
 margin:0;
 }
 
 p {
 font-size:0.8em;
 text-align:justify;
 line-height:1.7em;
 }
 
 h1 {
 font-size:1.2em;
 text-align:right;
 font-style:italic;
 letter-spacing:5px;
 }
 
 h2 {
 font-size:1.1em;
 text-decoration:underline;
 }
 
  #banner {
 height:100px;
 margin-top:0px;
 background-image:url(images/banner.gif);
 background-repeat:no-repeat;
 background-position:center top;
 }
 
 #main-content {
 background-color:#101920;
 margin-top:-100px;
 margin-left:200px;
 margin-right:200px;
 margin-bottom:0px;
 border-left:1px;
 border-right:1px;
 border:#000000 1px solid;
 padding-top:100px;
 padding-left:10px;
 padding-right:10px;
 padding-bottom:0px;
  }
 
 #navbar {
 border-top: 1px solid #000000;
 position:absolute;
 top:200px;
 left:0px;
 width:200px;
 font-weight:bold;
  }
  
  #navbar a:link, #navbar a:visited {
 display:block;
 color:#ffffff;
 background-color:#1C262F;
 border-left:1px solid #000000;
 border-bottom:1px solid #000000;
 padding-bottom:3px;
 padding-top:3px;
 }
 
  #navbar a:hover {
 background-color:#101920;
 color:#ffffff;
 text-decoration:none;
 }

and here's my HTML file.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">


<html>

<head>
<title>index.html</title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Arachnophilia 4.0">
<meta name="FORMATTER" content="Arachnophilia 4.0">

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="core.css">

</head>
<body>

<div id="banner"></div>
<div id="main-content">

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</div>


<div id="navbar">

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</div>


</body>

</html>

**foobar** · 11-07-2004, 09:18 PM

Use z-index

Set the z-index of #banner to 1.

Basically, this is what you'll get:

HTML Code:

#banner {
 height:100px;
 margin-top:0px;
 background-image:url(images/banner.gif);
 background-repeat:no-repeat;
 background-position:center top;

<!-- Set the z-index so element has higher priority -->
z-index: 1;

However, I think the element has to have been placed using position: absolute for that to work ...

If that doesn't work, just position using abo****e:

HTML Code:

#banner {
 height:100px;
 margin-top:0px;
 background-image:url(images/banner.gif);
 background-repeat:no-repeat;
 background-position:center top;

<!-- Position using absolute -->
position: absolute;
top: 0;

And just have the content <div> appear before the banner <div>

.

Hope that helps/works!