that worked fine - thanks
but i'm trying to avoid such absolute positioning as that link is for language switching to arabic, which is right-to-left, so the whole interface will be mirrored. is there no way to define:
div.header a
align: left
vertical align: center
so that way in the arabic stylesheet i can change align: left to align: right
that's what i was trying to achieve with float and margin, but that didnt work