margin: auto

[Jeff]

Updating my bag of tricks again.

What's the level of support for margin: auto. Is this widely
supported now amongst almost all browsers?

It's a common request to have a "centered" page. I don't remember
which major browser didn't support margin: auto, but there was a common
hack with some "text-aligns". Is it time to drop the hack?

Jeff

[Rik Wasmus]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:50:42 +0100, Jeff <jeff@spam_me_not.comwrote:

Updating my bag of tricks again.

What's the level of support for margin: auto. Is this widely
supported now amongst almost all browsers?

Save MSIE6 and lower.

It's a common request to have a "centered" page. I don't remember
which major browser didn't support margin: auto, but there was a common
hack with some "text-aligns". Is it time to drop the hack?

Nope, MSIE6 still needs it. margin:auto on the element for any other
browser, text-align:center on the parent element for MSIE6.
--
Rik Wasmus

[dorayme]

In article <13*************@corp.supernews.com>,
Jeff <jeff@spam_me_not.comwrote:

Updating my bag of tricks again.

What's the level of support for margin: auto. Is this widely
supported now amongst almost all browsers?

It's a common request to have a "centered" page. I don't remember
which major browser didn't support margin: auto, but there was a common
hack with some "text-aligns". Is it time to drop the hack?

IE 6 is the one to worry about. It will not centre a block with
margin: auto and a width.

--
dorayme

[Bergamot]

Rik Wasmus wrote:

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:50:42 +0100, Jeff <jeff@spam_me_not.comwrote:

> It's a common request to have a "centered" page. I don't remember
which major browser didn't support margin: auto, but there was a common
hack with some "text-aligns". Is it time to drop the hack?

Nope, MSIE6 still needs it.

Nope, IE6 does *not* need it, at least not in standards mode.
Margin:auto works perfectly fine. IE5.x doesn't grok it, but who cares?

You shouldn't be coding for quirks mode any more anyway.

--
Berg

[Bergamot]

dorayme wrote:

In article <13*************@corp.supernews.com>,
Jeff <jeff@spam_me_not.comwrote:

>>
What's the level of support for margin: auto. Is this widely
supported now amongst almost all browsers?

IE 6 is the one to worry about. It will not centre a block with
margin: auto and a width.

bollocks

I use margin:auto all the time. It works perfectly fine in IE6.

--
Berg

[Rik Wasmus]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:41:21 +0100, Bergamot <be******@visi.comwrote:

Rik Wasmus wrote:

>On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:50:42 +0100, Jeff <jeff@spam_me_not.comwrote:

>> It's a common request to have a "centered" page. I don't remember
which major browser didn't support margin: auto, but there was a common
hack with some "text-aligns". Is it time to drop the hack?

Nope, MSIE6 still needs it.

Nope, IE6 does *not* need it, at least not in standards mode.

Ah, most of my pages are valid strict 4.01, did seem to run into troubles
a time ago, maybe I used a lousy doctype back then...

Margin:auto works perfectly fine. IE5.x doesn't grok it, but who cares?
You shouldn't be coding for quirks mode any more anyway.

Amen.
--
Rik Wasmus

[Ben Bacarisse]

Jeff <jeff@spam_me_not.comwrites:

dorayme wrote:

>In article <13*************@corp.supernews.com>,
Jeff <jeff@spam_me_not.comwrote:

>> Updating my bag of tricks again.

What's the level of support for margin: auto. Is this widely
supported now amongst almost all browsers?

It's a common request to have a "centered" page. I don't
remember which major browser didn't support margin: auto, but there
was a common hack with some "text-aligns". Is it time to drop the
hack?

IE 6 is the one to worry about. It will not centre a block with
margin: auto and a width.

OK, I'm totally mixed up.

I've got IE6 on XP. It centers fine with margin: 0 auto, when I
have, it in standards mode and not in quirks mode.

That is what happens. See http://www.quirksmode.org/css/quirksmode.html
for a longer list of the differences.

As has already been said, if you use a standards-triggering DOCTYPE,
then IE6 is must less of a pain. I would not recommend doing anything
else, although there may be situations in which you are forced to*.

* Hmm... the most obvious is some managerial insistence on XHTML with
an XML prologue. This will trigger quirks mode.

--
Ben.