Title: Positioning content using CSS
Last modified: August 20, 2016

---

# Positioning content using CSS

 *  [devanijanssen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devanijanssen/)
 * (@devanijanssen)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/positioning-content-using-css/)
 * When I use html tags such as “<p … /p>” tags, the custom CSS correctly recognizes
   the id that I give it. When I use the brackets that my short code generator uses(
   example: [postgallery_image … /] the content is not recognized when I reference
   its id in my CSS. Any ideas on what my problem is?

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/positioning-content-using-css/#post-3324142)
 * How are you referring `[postgallery_image ... /]` in your CSS, can you post the
   code?
 * Can you also post a link to one webpage with the problem?
 *  Thread Starter [devanijanssen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devanijanssen/)
 * (@devanijanssen)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/positioning-content-using-css/#post-3324193)
 * I’m running on local host but hopefully this will give you an idea with what 
   I’m doing…
 * Here is what I have on my “edit page” page:
 * [postgallery_image width=”400″ height=”300″ media_categories=”stage-home” id=”
   gall” animation=”fade” tween=”linear” navigation=”disabled” /]
 * Here is my CSS:
 * #gall {
    position: absolute; top: 50px; left: 100px; }
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/positioning-content-using-css/#post-3324200)
 * What HTML does that shortcode produce?
 *  Thread Starter [devanijanssen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devanijanssen/)
 * (@devanijanssen)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/positioning-content-using-css/#post-3324209)
 * I found it there. Thanks, Andrew!

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

The topic ‘Positioning content using CSS’ is closed to new replies.

 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [devanijanssen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devanijanssen/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/positioning-content-using-css/#post-3324209)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics