Re: centering table

At 09:16 PM 4/19/01 -0700, Larry Coats wrote:


>bkrWeb Services wrote:
>
> > I have what I consider an odd situation.  I have a page at
> > www.bkrweb.com/progress/cits/index.html which uses a table for layout.  In
> > order to center this table I have enclosed it in a <.div> tag using
> > class="center" where .center has been defined as text--align: center.  It
> > works in IE and NS4.7, but not in Opera 5.  I have attempted to duplicate
> > this arrangement on another site.  This one is at
> > www.strongholdcenter.org/index2.html .  This one does not center in
> > NS4.7.  Any ideas why?  I have actually removed the <.div> and replaced it
> > with align="center" inside the <.table> tag and it still didn't
> > work.  Please don't tell me to not worry about the small number of people
> > who use NS -- the staff at the conference center ALL use it.
>
>I haven't looked at the first one, but I did take a look at the 2nd one in
>Netscape.
>
>Seems Netscape gets a little confused now and then by what should be perfectly
>valid alignment requests. The very first row in the table has class="center"
>in the <.td> tag. If you take it out, the table centers. You can put the
>class="center" into the <.tr> tag and it still works fine, so that seems like
>the fix this table. One of those little mysteries of Netscape. Shrug.
>
>Larry Coats

That center is in the <.td> tag to center the Stronghold logo at the top of 
the page.  If I take it out, then the logo is off to the side.  I may just 
have to decide which situation I'd rather live with.   My choice of course 
would be for all browser to render all pages the way I want them to!

Thanks.

Kathie

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