# Position Text Using CSS

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/position-text-using-css/243054>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [November 2, 2007, 9:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/position-text-using-css/243054 "2007-11-02T09:54:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Madball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Madball](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Madball)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 9:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/position-text-using-css/243054/1 "2007-11-02T09:54:08Z")

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Hi all,

I’m currently trying to create a website and I want some text to appear in the top left hand corner of the screen. I tried just using tables but it doesn’t seem to work. I thought about trying to use CSS to do it but I can’t seem to find any syntax to position text like you can with images

```auto
image {background-position: 30% 20%}

```

etc.