unordered list centering with IE6 for Win

[Justin Archie]

The subject says it all my friends. I have searched google to death
about centering problems and for some reason no one seems to have the
error I have. For the past few days I have been working on a website
for a non-profit club and I and they were happy with the design and
layout.
I did not discover a problem with what I had until I was testing all
browsers for compatibility. The following page
http://www.umsis.miami.edu/~jarchie/page/index.html will render just
the way I want it in Mozilla, which seems to be always the case. When
I checked it in IE6 for Win I noticed the problem.
The menu bar seems to hug the right side edge of the <td> it had been
placed in. I want it to be centered. Now, I have tried every trick I
know of for centering... placeing the unordered list with a div tag,
and then even placing that within another div tag, but it seems that
the same results comes through. I'd appreciate any feedback, links,
FAQs, or smoke signals on the issue.

Regards,

JT Archie

[Mark Tranchant]

Justin Archie wrote:

I'd appreciate any feedback, links,
FAQs, or smoke signals on the issue.

Don't use tables for layout, and fix the HTML errors. Then ask again.

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbos...age/index.html

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Mark.
http://tranchant.plus.com/

[Justin Archie]

The only reason I used table initially was because I had done this
using pure CSS for the layout, but it was causing even more problems,
and I needed a faster way to do this.

Mark Tranchant <ma**@tranchant.plus.com> wrote in message news:<41***********************@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net>...

Justin Archie wrote:

I'd appreciate any feedback, links,
FAQs, or smoke signals on the issue.

Don't use tables for layout, and fix the HTML errors. Then ask again.

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbos...age/index.html

[Mark Tranchant]

> Mark Tranchant <ma**@tranchant.plus.com> wrote in message news:<41***********************@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net>...

Justin Archie wrote:

I'd appreciate any feedback, links,
FAQs, or smoke signals on the issue.
Don't use tables for layout, and fix the HTML errors. Then ask again.

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbos...age/index.html

Justin Archie top-posted: The only reason I used table initially was because I had done this
using pure CSS for the layout, but it was causing even more problems,
and I needed a faster way to do this.

That shouldn't be hard to do in CSS. Have another go, and pop back again.

If you must used fixed-with table layout, why not do it properly and
centre the menu bar using two thin spacer columns either side?

My point about validation still holds, though. The errors shown appear
fairly trivial, but getting rid of them is equally trivial.

--
Mark.
http://tranchant.plus.com/

[Justin Archie]

I ahve fixed it. The final result can be seen at
http://www.flcoastwaterpolo.com . I know the layout looks 1996ish, but
it needed to be quick and simple for the people I made it for.

The CSS that I finally did do on the site makes sense to me, but then
I also have a bit of trouble of understanding why it is the the only
form of header, left column, right column, and footer that seemed to
work correctly. I tried ever header, 2 column, and footer CSS design I
could find on the www to fit the CSS. I even used
http://www.csscreator.com layout generator. Nothing seemed to hold its
form.

My final result came to having the two columns -- having the menu
float to the left and then set the content colum in (by margin-left)
the width of the menu. Can anyone explain to me why this works and
nothing else did?

Regards

Mark Tranchant <ma**@tranchant.plus.com> wrote in message news:<41***********************@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net>...

Mark Tranchant <ma**@tranchant.plus.com> wrote in message news:<41***********************@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net>...

Justin Archie wrote:
I'd appreciate any feedback, links,
FAQs, or smoke signals on the issue.

Don't use tables for layout, and fix the HTML errors. Then ask again.

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbos...age/index.html

Justin Archie top-posted:

> The only reason I used table initially was because I had done this
> using pure CSS for the layout, but it was causing even more problems,
> and I needed a faster way to do this.

That shouldn't be hard to do in CSS. Have another go, and pop back again.

If you must used fixed-with table layout, why not do it properly and
centre the menu bar using two thin spacer columns either side?

My point about validation still holds, though. The errors shown appear
fairly trivial, but getting rid of them is equally trivial.