html to set picture centered

I have 1 picture link on my main page and it sits center horizontally. How can I also get it to sit centered vertically?

anyone know the html to make it sit at the center rather than the top of the screen.

thanks

If I understand what you're wanting correctly, there is no simple html command to achieve that.

You can fudge your way around things by either using a lot of BR commands to lower the picture so it doesn't sit directly at the top of a page (for example), or put the image in a table and define where the table will sit (tho I think you'd need CSS coding rather than HTML table coding for better placement control), or use empty, unbordered, size-defined tables to "push" the image or image-in-a-table boxes down from the top, instead of BR's. Or use the invisible.gif/spacer.g​if type of trick. They all achieve the same purpose in the end, just some with more refinement.

And none of this will guarantee that people using different monitor resolutions will see the image as being in the "smack dab center" of their screen - but it will make it so the image isn't flush against the top.

There are a few ways to do this - CSS, DHTML and Javascript would be my guesses, offhand.

Plain HTML offers no such tag. Just <CENTER> </CENTER>

Try creating a table with one cell and set the vertical alignment of the cell to middle (VALIGN).

This should do it for you.

 
<table width="100%" height="100%">
<tr>
    <td align="center" valign="middle">
        <a href="url_goes_here"><img src="path_to_image_her​e" border="0"></a>
   </td>
</tr>
</table>

Using the html height attribute to set the height of a table is generally not recommended, as it isn't considered valid code. Which isn't to say that it cannot work - particularly if you don't put that "doc type" line at the top of your scripted pages - but it may be inconsistent. And of course, if you ever decide to put content in that table other than that single image, and thus the content becomes "taller" than a users browser window, it can all go phooley.

Here, maybe this might be helpful, both about 100% height and CSS ways to define height instead.

http://apptools.com/ex​amples/tableheight.php