Text and layer position problems

Hi, I am creating a webpage and I have installed a background
image. for which I have centred and all is fine.
I am now using layers to add text so I can place the text
wherever I want.
But when I save and view in IE and Firefox the text is not in
the correct position. I have tried a number of things to solve this
all to no avail.
Please can someone help me.
The text I have so far is:

> I am now using layers to add text so I can place the
text wherever I want.
This is number 4 in the top 5 mistakes someone can make in
building their
pages. Here's why -
http://www.great-web-sights.com/g_layer-overlap.asp
It will help you to understand the difference between
absolute positioning
and centering content. Your layer is absolutely positioned,
and your
background is centering. That's never going to work the way
you want....
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"YNWA4EVA" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hi, I am creating a webpage and I have installed a
background image. for
> which
> I have centred and all is fine.
>
> I am now using layers to add text so I can place the
text wherever I want.
>
> But when I save and view in IE and Firefox the text is
not in the correct
> position. I have tried a number of things to solve this
all to no avail.
>
> Please can someone help me.
>
> The text I have so far is:
>
>
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN"
> "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" />
> <title>Liverpool Hope University - IT Deanery Book
Sales</title>
>
> <style type="text/css">
> 
> </style></head>
>
> <body>
> <div id="Layer3">
> <p>I want my text here </p>
> </div>
> </body>
> </html>
>

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