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  • Jeff
    #1

    margin: auto

    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
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    • Rik Wasmus
      #2
      Re: margin: auto

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

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        • dorayme
          #3
          Re: margin: auto

          In article <13rudd4o354c1a 2@corp.supernew s.com>,
          Jeff <jeff@spam_me_n ot.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

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            • Bergamot
              #4
              Re: margin: auto

              Rik Wasmus wrote:
              On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:50:42 +0100, Jeff <jeff@spam_me_n ot.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

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                • Bergamot
                  #5
                  Re: margin: auto

                  dorayme wrote:
                  In article <13rudd4o354c1a 2@corp.supernew s.com>,
                  Jeff <jeff@spam_me_n ot.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

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                    • Rik Wasmus
                      #6
                      Re: margin: auto

                      On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:41:21 +0100, Bergamot <bergamot@visi. comwrote:
                      Rik Wasmus wrote:
                      >On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:50:42 +0100, Jeff <jeff@spam_me_n ot.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

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                        • Ben Bacarisse
                          #7
                          Re: margin: auto

                          Jeff <jeff@spam_me_n ot.comwrites:
                          dorayme wrote:
                          >In article <13rudd4o354c1a 2@corp.supernew s.com>,
                          > Jeff <jeff@spam_me_n ot.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.

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