How to center content in div tag?

[Olav Tollefsen]

In HTML, I could use <div align="center">.

How do I center everything contained in a <div> tag using XHTML 1.1?

Are there any newsgroup for XHTML authoring?

Olav

[Steve Pugh]

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 19:52:06 +0100, "Olav Tollefsen" <[e-mail]> wrote:

In HTML, I could use <div align="center">.
In pre-HTML 4 you could (and in HTML 4 Transitional, but unless you
have a time machine there's no need to be worrying about the
transition from pre-1997 code).
How do I center everything contained in a <div> tag using XHTML 1.1?
Same way you would in any of the versions of (x)HTML that actually
work on the www.

Inline content is centered via the CSS property text-align: center;
applied to the div itself.
Block level children are centered via the CSS properties margin-left:
auto; and margin-right: auto; applied to the child elements.

IE6 needs to be in Standards mode for the latter to work. IE5 doesn't
support the latter but does, incorrectly, center block levele children
if text-align: center; was set on the parent.
Are there any newsgroup for XHTML authoring?

This one.

Steve

[Olav Tollefsen]

"Steve Pugh" <st***@pugh.net> wrote in message
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On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 19:52:06 +0100, "Olav Tollefsen" <[e-mail]> wrote:

How do I center everything contained in a <div> tag using XHTML 1.1?

Same way you would in any of the versions of (x)HTML that actually
work on the www.

Inline content is centered via the CSS property text-align: center;
applied to the div itself.
Block level children are centered via the CSS properties margin-left:
auto; and margin-right: auto; applied to the child elements.

So, it's no direct equivalent in the XHTML 1.1 strict <div> tag to <div
align="center">?

Olav

[Barbara de Zoete]

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 20:52:02 +0100, Olav Tollefsen <[e-mail]> wrote:

"Steve Pugh" <st***@pugh.net> wrote in message
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On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 19:52:06 +0100, "Olav Tollefsen" <[e-mail]> wrote:

How do I center everything contained in a <div> tag using XHTML 1.1?

Same way you would in any of the versions of (x)HTML that actually
work on the www.

Inline content is centered via the CSS property text-align: center;
applied to the div itself.
Block level children are centered via the CSS properties margin-left:
auto; and margin-right: auto; applied to the child elements.

So, it's no direct equivalent in the XHTML 1.1 strict <div> tag to <div
align="center">?

If you have to ask that, why, if I may ask, are you going to use XHTML 1.1
strict?
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[Darin McGrew]

Olav Tollefsen <[e-mail]> wrote:

So, it's no direct equivalent in the XHTML 1.1 strict <div> tag to <div
align="center">?

Barbara de Zoete <b_********@hotmail.com> wrote: If you have to ask that, why, if I may ask, are you going to use XHTML 1.1
strict?

And FWIW, it's just XHTML 1.1. XHTML 1.0 was the last recommendation with
the Transitional-Strict-Frameset triad.
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[Steve Pugh]

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 20:52:02 +0100, "Olav Tollefsen" <[e-mail]> wrote:

"Steve Pugh" <st***@pugh.net> wrote in message
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On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 19:52:06 +0100, "Olav Tollefsen" <[e-mail]> wrote:

How do I center everything contained in a <div> tag using XHTML 1.1?

Same way you would in any of the versions of (x)HTML that actually
work on the www.

Inline content is centered via the CSS property text-align: center;
applied to the div itself.
Block level children are centered via the CSS properties margin-left:
auto; and margin-right: auto; applied to the child elements.

So, it's no direct equivalent in the XHTML 1.1 strict <div> tag to <div
align="center">?

There's no such thing as XHTML 1.1 Strict.

No, presentation has been moved from HTML to CSS ever since HTML 4 in
1997.

Steve

[Spartanicus]

"Olav Tollefsen" <[e-mail]> wrote:

using XHTML 1.1?

Oh dear, time to read this:
http://www.spartanicus.utvinternet.ie/no-xhtml.htm

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[David Dorward]

Olav Tollefsen wrote:

In HTML, I could use <div align="center">.

How do I center everything contained in a <div> tag using XHTML 1.1?
You don't, that's the job of CSS.
http://dorward.me.uk/www/centre/
Are there any newsgroup for XHTML authoring?

This one.

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[Gus Richter]

Steve Pugh wrote:

There's no such thing as XHTML 1.1 Strict.

Better phrased is that: XHTML 1.1 in itself is "Strict". There is only
one DocType.

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[Olav Tollefsen]

"Spartanicus" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
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"Olav Tollefsen" <[e-mail]> wrote:

using XHTML 1.1?

Oh dear, time to read this:
http://www.spartanicus.utvinternet.ie/no-xhtml.htm

I'm a bit confused by the different HTML-related standards.

What standard is the "recommended" for writing new applications to target
the most current browsers (I don't care about IE 5 etc.)?

Olav

[Spartanicus]

"Olav Tollefsen" <[e-mail]> wrote:

using XHTML 1.1?

Oh dear, time to read this:
http://www.spartanicus.utvinternet.ie/no-xhtml.htm

I'm a bit confused by the different HTML-related standards.

What standard is the "recommended" for writing new applications to target
the most current browsers (I don't care about IE 5 etc.)?

HTML 4.01 Strict

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[Andrew Glasgow]

Olav Tollefsen wrote:

"Steve Pugh" <st***@pugh.net> wrote in message
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On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 19:52:06 +0100, "Olav Tollefsen" <[e-mail]> wrote:

How do I center everything contained in a <div> tag using XHTML

1.1?
Same way you would in any of the versions of (x)HTML that actually
work on the www.

Inline content is centered via the CSS property text-align: center;
applied to the div itself.
Block level children are centered via the CSS properties margin-left: auto; and margin-right: auto; applied to the child elements.
So, it's no direct equivalent in the XHTML 1.1 strict <div> tag to

<div align="center">?

Olav

There is no equivalent because all presentational aspects have been
removed from XHTML 1.1. (That's why, as other posters have indicated,
the term 'strict' is redundant and unnecessary when referring to that
specification.)

If you want to use XHTML for whatever reason (fetish for the
bleeding-edge perhaps) you must accept that all presentation will be
done through CSS only.