[Gllug] [OT?] Please sign my Google petition ...

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:34:34AM +0100, Tethys wrote:
> 
> "Daniel P. Berrange" writes:
> 
> >Transitional & Frameset (oth HTML 4 & XHTML versions) are the things
> >to really avoid.
> 
> So tell me how to get a centred table in Strict. That's the only thing I
> still use Transitional for. If you try:


> Anyone know how I can do this properly?

Eric Meyer's book showed the lowdown on this:

  <table id="mytable">
  </table>


#mytable {
  width: 60%;
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
}

With both margins set to auto the browser (if compliant) will
set them both the same value thus centering the element. This
works in IE 6 & Mozilla, but not Nutscrape & IE <= 5.5

IIRC, there may also be some caveat about the element you are
centering needing to be within a positioned element. ie one
that has an explicit 'position:' attribute set - but thats no
too difficult to deal with - since soo many things in CSS work
better if you use position tags.

Dan
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