Why won't IE6 center this table?

Christopher Benson-Manica

See http://ataru.gomen.org/files/test.html:

<html>
<head>
<title>Test page</title>
<style type="text/css">
.center { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table class="center">
<tr>
<td>Hello</td>
<td>World!</td>
</tr></table></body></html>

Why won't IE6 center the table, where Opera 7 and NS 7.1 render it just
fine, and especially where IE6 renders what appears to be exactly the
same table at http://theodorakis.net/tablecentertest.html correctly?
What the heck gives?

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Christopher Benson-Manica

Christopher Benson-Manica <at***@nospam.cyberspace.org> spoke thus:

<html>
<body> <h1 class="center">Hello, world!</h1> <table class="center">
<tr>
<td>Hello</td>
<td>World!</td>
</tr></table></body></html>

And why don't either IE6 or NS7 center the header, but links (a
text-based browser that barely understands Javascript, for crying out
loud!) centers the header? *sigh*

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David Dorward

Christopher Benson-Manica wrote:

.center { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto } Why won't IE6 center the table

http://dorward.me.uk/www/centre/#ie

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David Dorward

Christopher Benson-Manica wrote:

<h1 class="center">Hello, world!</h1> And why don't either IE6 or NS7 center the header
http://dorward.me.uk/www/centre/#iVsB
, but links (a
text-based browser that barely understands Javascript, for crying out
loud!) centers the header?

Links centres <h1> content by default.

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Rijk van Geijtenbeek

On Thu, 6 May 2004 18:56:39 +0000 (UTC), Christopher Benson-Manica
<at***@nospam.cyberspace.org> wrote:

See http://ataru.gomen.org/files/test.html:

<html> ....
Why won't IE6 center the table, where Opera 7 and NS 7.1 render it just
fine, and especially where IE6 renders what appears to be exactly the
same table at http://theodorakis.net/tablecentertest.html correctly?
What the heck gives?

Do a Google search on Quirks mode rendering.
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It can absorb as much time as is required to ensure that you
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Christopher Benson-Manica

Rijk van Geijtenbeek <ri**@opera.com> spoke thus:

Do a Google search on Quirks mode rendering.

I had no idea such a thing existed - yeesh, and thank you :)

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Lal

Christopher Benson-Manica <at***@nospam.cyberspace.org> wrote in message news:<c7**********@chessie.cirr.com>...

See http://ataru.gomen.org/files/test.html:

<html>
<head>
<title>Test page</title>
<style type="text/css">
.center { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table class="center">
<tr>
<td>Hello</td>
<td>World!</td>
</tr></table></body></html>

Why won't IE6 center the table, where Opera 7 and NS 7.1 render it just
fine, and especially where IE6 renders what appears to be exactly the
same table at http://theodorakis.net/tablecentertest.html correctly?
What the heck gives?

Give the style as

<style type="text/css">
.center { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center}
</style>

Why won't IE6 center this table?

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