Css Div Tags And Positioning

[ravenshade]

I have three div tags two nested in the first.

<div class="test"><div class="text1"><div><div class="text2"></div></div>

Now, these have a CSS script attached to them...

.test {		margin: 150px auto;	width: 600px;	font-size: 100%;	background: url(---url removed---) no-repeat bottom right;}.text1 {	background: url(---url removed---) no-repeat top right;	margin: 0;	padding: 0px;	text-align: center;}.text2 {background: url(---url removed---) no-repeat top left;	margin: 0;	padding: 10px 30px 5px;	color: white; 	font-weight: bold; 	font-size: 1.2em; 	line-height: 0em;}

Now, my problem is, is that I want to position the div tag that's inside the nest (text 1) Just a few pixels higher than the nest. With images it's possible by adjusting the line height or something similarOther than that, I've going to have to alter the template and a few dozen pages with a slight adjustment to the coding.

[ravenshade]

Found a solution that might work

.text2 {margin-top: -10px;}

lets see which browsers like that :)editAppears not to work actually...

[dsonesuk]

first problem, you don't have matching open and closed div tags. <div class="test"><div class="text1"><div><div class="text2"></div></div>should be:div class="test"><div class="text1"></div> <div class="text2"></div></div>or do you mean:div class="test"><div class="text1"><div class="text2"></div></div></div>

[ravenshade]

...typo DX but yes the HTML is correct it's just the CSS I'm having problems with.ack you confused me...

<div class="test">	<div class="text1>	</div>	<div class="text2>	</div></div>

...(if the tabs show up, then I hope it makes it clearer)

[Ingolme]

You can give the <div> element a relative position and move it up a few pixels:

.text1 {  position: relative;  bottom: 10px;}

[ravenshade]

Thanks, I'll go try that now. (It does sound stupidly simple, so who knows, it should work :) Normally I position everything absolutely, so I'm always using the position tag, however in the interests of creativity I stopped using the position syntax just to see what would happen. Maybe that wasn't the best idea.

[Ingolme]

I don't encourage the use of absolute positioning to lay out sites. It makes it very hard to get consistent results across browsers.To make layouts use float, margin and padding.

[ravenshade]

It appears to work, so I'll be replicating that across a few dozen CSS files...i was working around it by specifying each one but I no longer have to do that now. What a waste of css files...Float... i could never get to grip with the float syntax. It hates me. (Or rather I just don't know how to use it yet).