title: need help CSS centering with absolute positioning
body: <p>I've never been totally satisfied with my various solutions to centering content in a web page. the <code>&lt;center&gt;</code> tag has been deprecated back in the middle of the 18th century, but I fail to see a reasonable alternative. Specifically what I want is to have a parent DIV that is centered, but against whose upper left hand corner I can set things "absolutely". </p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to accomplish this without using window.onresize javascript that remeasures everything?  It seems like a fairly straight forward idea... I want things absolutely positioned, I just want the 0,0 coordinate to be relative to something other than the top left corner of the browser window.</p>
  
  <p>Right now, what I do is set a div to center its content and then noodle around with relative positioning, but that's very tiresome because relative objects keep pushing each other around in ways that I totally don't want. </p>
  
  <p>Any and all thoughts on this greatly appreciated.</p>