How to center a div in IE 5.5 ?

[Unknown User]

Here's a page that is centered in all browsers minus in IE 5.5:
http://www.fala-brasil.com/test/

I used:

#main {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 760px;
}

to center the main page. It doesn't seem to work in IE 5.5. Is there a
solution?
Thanks,

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[Martin!]

Unknown User wrote:

Here's a page that is centered in all browsers minus in IE 5.5:
http://www.fala-brasil.com/test/

I used:

#main {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 760px;
}

to center the main page. It doesn't seem to work in IE 5.5. Is there a
solution?
Thanks,

dont think i can answer your question, instead i have a question:
you use the xhtml doctype, can/do you realy expect pre-IE6 browsers to
nicely render an xhtml page ?

my guess is that you could center your stuff using some legacy html.

gl
martin

[Steve Pugh]

"Unknown User" <[e-mail]> wrote:

Here's a page that is centered in all browsers minus in IE 5.5:
http://www.fala-brasil.com/test/

I used:

#main {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 760px;
}

to center the main page. It doesn't seem to work in IE 5.5. Is there a
solution?

Win IE5.x doesn't understand margin: auto. But you can use another bug
to get the same result. Win IE5 incorrectly applies text-align to
block level children.

Thus
body {text-align: center;}
#main {margin: 0 auto; width: 760px; text-align: left;}

will center the element in IE5.x and decent browsers. The text-align:
left in the #main styles is to prevent the content of the element
being centered.

Steve

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[Steve Pugh]

"Martin!" <ma**********@home.nl.knip.knip.knip> wrote:

Unknown User wrote:

Here's a page that is centered in all browsers minus in IE 5.5:
http://www.fala-brasil.com/test/

dont think i can answer your question, instead i have a question:
you use the xhtml doctype, can/do you realy expect pre-IE6 browsers to
nicely render an xhtml page ?

Why not? IE5 has exactly the same support for XHTML as IE6 - none at
all.

The page may have an XHTML doctype on it but it's being served as
text/html (the meta tag that claims otherwise is of course ignored in
favour of the actual HTTP header), and has been written in accordance
with Appendix C of the XHTML 1.0 spec so browsers will treat it as
sort-of-HTML. That's the only way to make IE render any XHTML page.

Steve

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[Richard]

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 20:12:34 -0300 Unknown User wrote:

Here's a page that is centered in all browsers minus in IE 5.5:
http://www.fala-brasil.com/test/

I used:

#main {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 760px;
}

to center the main page. It doesn't seem to work in IE 5.5. Is there a
solution?
Thanks,

Another solution might be to use 3 divisions housed in a container.
Make the container the width of the window.
Set your left and right divisions widths to a percentage.
That way it would appear as a centered division.

[Gnolen]

Is there some way I could do a vertical and horizontal center in page(as
it is for many 'soon online' sites) in all browsers? It was easy with
tables but not that easy with divs!

Thanks

/Gnolen

Unknown User wrote:

Here's a page that is centered in all browsers minus in IE 5.5:
http://www.fala-brasil.com/test/

I used:

#main {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 760px;
}

to center the main page. It doesn't seem to work in IE 5.5. Is there a
solution?
Thanks,