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Discussion on: Percentages in CSS: you're using them wrong

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John Park

I'm having a hard time understanding the type of background image this would be beneficial for... Do you have an example? I've used percentage for lifestyle shots where I want to position subjects into the element bounds in a specific way. The percentages are unique to that image, would this still apply?

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Massimo Artizzu

Yes, of course that would. Any time you don't know the size of a box, but you want something placed in the "same position", is a good fix for percentage positioning.

In my case, that was simpler. In the left half of the page we had the content; in the right, the disegner decided to have some padding from the boundaries, so there you go.