Center Tables with CSS

[Bastian]

Hi,

I have a very crazy problem with CSS. I have tried to center my tables
with
TABLE {margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto}
how it is described in many other postings.
Mozilla and Konqueror are accepting this way of centering the table
but not IE.
I also tried
TABLE {margin-left: 0 auto}
which I have seen recently, too. But nothing works.

Had anyone the same problem and can help me. If not, I have to center
the tables with the "align" attribute. But if it's possible I want to
avoid that.

Bye

Bastian

[Martin Honnen]

Re: Center Tables with CSS



Bastian wrote:
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> I have a very crazy problem with CSS. I have tried to center my tables
> with
> TABLE {margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto}
> how it is described in many other postings.
> Mozilla and Konqueror are accepting this way of centering the table
> but not IE.[/color]

I think IE6/Win should do the right thing with that CSS if you make sure
your document is rendered in CSS standards-compliant mode

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnie60/html/cssenhancements.asp

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[Els]

Re: Center Tables with CSS

Bastian wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I have a very crazy problem with CSS. I have tried to center my tables
> with
> TABLE {margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto}
> how it is described in many other postings.
> Mozilla and Konqueror are accepting this way of centering the table
> but not IE.
> I also tried
> TABLE {margin-left: 0 auto}
> which I have seen recently, too. But nothing works.
>
> Had anyone the same problem and can help me. If not, I have to center
> the tables with the "align" attribute. But if it's possible I want to
> avoid that.[/color]

For IE5 (and 4) you will need the center:align; property in
the style of the parent element.
http://locusmeus.com/html-css/centeringpage.html is about
centering a page, but the same principle goes for tables,
I'd think.



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[David Dorward]

Re: Center Tables with CSS

Bastian wrote:
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> I have a very crazy problem with CSS.[/color]

comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.stylesheets is a couple of doors along, this
is the html authoring newsgroup.
[color=blue]
> I have tried to center my tables
> with
> TABLE {margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto}
> how it is described in many other postings.
> Mozilla and Konqueror are accepting this way of centering the table[/color]

Yup, they are good browsers.

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

[color=blue]
> but not IE.[/color]

You are probably using an obsolete version of IE, or are failing to trigger
standards mode.

http://dorward.me.uk/www/centre/#ie explains the work arounds.
[color=blue]
> I also tried
> TABLE {margin-left: 0 auto}[/color]

This means the same as:

margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;

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[Spartanicus]

Re: Center Tables with CSS

David Dorward <dorward@yahoo. com> wrote:
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>> I also tried
>> TABLE {margin-left: 0 auto}[/color]
>
>This means the same as:
>
>margin-top: 0;
>margin-bottom: 0;
>margin-left: auto;
>margin-right: auto;[/color]

Margin-left only takes one value, correct usage: "margin:0 auto".

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[Els]

Re: Center Tables with CSS

Spartanicus wrote:
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> David Dorward <dorward@yahoo. com> wrote:
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>>>I also tried
>>>TABLE {margin-left: 0 auto}[/color]
>>
>>This means the same as:
>>
>>margin-top: 0;
>>margin-bottom: 0;
>>margin-left: auto;
>>margin-right: auto;[/color]
>
> Margin-left only takes one value, correct usage: "margin:0 auto".[/color]

I just looked at this sentence of yours, and the code above,
and again, and once more.. and then I saw the difference.

Funny how you see what you're expecting to see, while it's
not really there ;-)

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[David Dorward]

Re: Center Tables with CSS

Spartanicus wrote:
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> Margin-left only takes one value, correct usage: "margin:0 auto".[/color]

Whoops - misread the previous post.

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