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  • SpaceMarine
    #1

    XHTML - centering a table?

    hello,

    i see that <table align="center"i s no longer valid markup in XHTML.
    nor is <center><table> </table></center>.

    how then does one center a table?

    found articles for centering text:

    http://msconline.maconstate.edu/Tutorials/XHTML/XHTML03/xhtml03-03.htm


    ....but that doesnt help on a table because i dont want the text
    *inside* the table centered, only the table itself.


    surely this most be a common task?


    thanks!
    sm
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    • Nick Theodorakis
      #2
      Re: XHTML - centering a table?

      On Feb 14, 1:31 pm, SpaceMarine <spacemar...@ma ilinator.comwro te:
      hello,
      >
      i see that <table align="center"i s no longer valid markup in XHTML.
      nor is <center><table> </table></center>.
      >
      how then does one center a table?
      >
      Set the left and right margins of the table to "auto" in your style
      sheet.

      Nick

      --
      Nick Theodorakis
      nick_theodoraki s@hotmail.com
      contact form:
      http://theodorakis.net/contact.html

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        • C A Upsdell
          #3
          Re: XHTML - centering a table?

          Nick Theodorakis wrote:
          On Feb 14, 1:31 pm, SpaceMarine <spacemar...@ma ilinator.comwro te:
          >hello,
          >>
          >i see that <table align="center"i s no longer valid markup in XHTML.
          >nor is <center><table> </table></center>.
          >>
          >how then does one center a table?
          >>
          >
          Set the left and right margins of the table to "auto" in your style
          sheet.
          Which will not work with older versions of IE still being used, so you
          may have to handle that.

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            • Jukka K. Korpela
              #4
              Re: XHTML - centering a table?

              Scripsit SpaceMarine:
              i see that <table align="center"i s no longer valid markup in XHTML.
              It is.
              nor is <center><table> </table></center>.
              It is.

              You don't really know what XHTML is, do you? Don't worry, most other
              authors who use XHTML don't know that either. But you might draw the
              conclusions and upgrade to HTML 4.01, which is far better supported by
              current browsers.
              how then does one center a table?
              There are ways to do that in CSS (consider checking the FAQs), but why
              bother, if you already know the HTML way?
              surely this most be a common task?
              It's not. Why would you want to center a table?

              --
              Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
              http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/


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                • Nick Theodorakis
                  #5
                  Re: XHTML - centering a table?

                  On Feb 14, 2:20 pm, C A Upsdell <cupsd...@upsde ll.invalidwrote :
                  Nick Theodorakis wrote:
                  On Feb 14, 1:31 pm, SpaceMarine <spacemar...@ma ilinator.comwro te:
                  hello,
                  >
                  i see that <table align="center"i s no longer valid markup in XHTML.
                  nor is <center><table> </table></center>.
                  >
                  how then does one center a table?
                  >
                  Set the left and right margins of the table to "auto" in your style
                  sheet.
                  >
                  Which will not work with older versions of IE still being used, so you
                  may have to handle that.
                  It'll work with IE down to version 6 as long as standards mode is
                  invoked (and it needs to be invoked even to get it work with IE7). If
                  the OP wants to make it work with IE5 (and even Netscape 4) I still
                  have my old table centering page up:

                  <http://theodorakis.net/tablecentertest .html>

                  Although I felt a little hesitant to plug it in my other post.

                  Nick

                  --
                  Nick Theodorakis
                  nick_theodoraki s@hotmail.com
                  contact form:
                  http://theodorakis.net/contact.html

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                    • SpaceMarine
                      #6
                      Re: XHTML - centering a table?

                      On Feb 14, 2:09 pm, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tu t.fiwrote:
                      Scripsit SpaceMarine:
                      >
                      i see that <table align="center"i s no longer valid markup in XHTML.
                      >
                      It is.
                      >
                      nor is <center><table> </table></center>.
                      >
                      It is.
                      not according to my XHTML 1.0 Transitional validation tool (Visual
                      Studio 2005) -- "...is considered outdated. A newer construct is
                      recommended."

                      There are ways to do that in CSS (consider checking the FAQs),
                      im asking here.

                      surely this most be a common task?
                      >
                      It's not. Why would you want to center a table?
                      who are you to question why i want to center a table?

                      are you always such a useless fart-bubble twit? or just online?


                      sm

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                        • SpaceMarine
                          #7
                          Re: XHTML - centering a table?

                          On Feb 14, 3:37 pm, Nick Theodorakis <nick.theodora. ..@gmail.com>
                          wrote:
                          It'll work with IE down to version 6 as long as standards mode is
                          invoked (and it needs to be invoked even to get it work with IE7). If
                          the OP wants to make it work with IE5 (and even Netscape 4) I still
                          have my old table centering page up:
                          >
                          <http://theodorakis.net/tablecentertest .html>
                          very useful, thanks nick.

                          sm

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                            • SpaceMarine
                              #8
                              Re: XHTML - centering a table?

                              On Feb 14, 2:09 pm, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tu t.fiwrote:
                              There are ways to do that in CSS (consider checking the FAQs), but why
                              bother, if you already know the HTML way?
                              ps, Twit Master 3000 -- it is better to define layout in CSS over HTML
                              anyway, as it lets the style doc render the content dynamically based
                              on what the current medium is. for instance, my project uses one set
                              of CSS docs for web browsers, and another for handhelds. prefer not to
                              "hard code" the alignments in HTML even if they were standards-
                              compliant tags, which i dont think they are any longer (see above).

                              but, i found my solution, thanks to nick. im outtie. ta!


                              sm

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