Positioning text over a table

[mixmastermidori]

I know this is a really basic, dumb question, but I'm stuck. My mommy brain just can't seem to figure this one out.

I created an image that I want as the background of my page. It's a rectangle about 760x450 that includes a background and rollovers for the navigation. I chopped it up in Fireworks, and now I want to place the text over it. When I made my DIV, it just put the text below the whole Fireworks table.

I want the background image to always be centered, so I can't use fixed positioning for the text. What do I do?

Thanks so much for any help!
-midori

[Tyssen]

Can you show us your code/link and an example of what you're trying to achieve?

[mixmastermidori]

Here's the result of my wrong code: Text below background.

I want the text placed in the blank space of the background.

Thanks so much!
-midori

[Tyssen]

I thought so - don't put your text in a separate element which you then try to 'position' over the top of another table. Your text should go in a table cell of the main table and the images should be background-images of the table cells not images in the HTML.

[mixmastermidori]

Aaaahhh...I knew the answer was stupidly simple. I thought I should do some fancy CSS positioning when the solution was easy. Thanks for straightening me out. I really appreciate it!