textareas ruin positioned <div>

[bushels]

I have a div that is positioned in the middle of my page.... or at least it WAS !!!
But when i put a textarea inside the div, the absolute positioning (controled by external style sheet) just gave up and died !!!

I've scoured the web forums for an answer, but found none - - hope someone here can help ??

(I'm using IE6)

Here's the code from the .html:

<div class="myCentre">
<h2>Centre</h2>
<textarea cols='30' rows='5.85' name='intro_0' onfocus=blur();>blah blah blah....</textarea>
<p>just normal text stuff....</P>
</div>

and the code from the .css :

.myCentre
{
absolute;
left: 25%;
top: 90px;
width: 50%;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
border-color: black;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-left: 10px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
padding-top: 10px;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
background-color: white;
}

[The New Guy]

Works for me, the only thing I changed was where you have "absolute;" that should be "position: absolute;"