Re: still looks left on my computer.

>I guess I am even more confused. On firefox, that paragraph was way over to
>the
>left on my computer.  It is ok on ie.  This page does it too even worse, but
>I haven't had time to work on it yet, either.
>http://www.tein.net/~diane/joni/western.html
>http://www.tein.net/~diane/joni/classiccar.html
>It looks on good on ie which makes one ask, how many people have firefox
>anyway?

Why would you expect the content to be centred?  You have not done anything 
to ensure that it will be.

Perhaps you think that this might do it?

         <div style="text-align:center;width:80%;">

I assume that you are trying to put everything in a block which takes up 
80% of the width of the page.  This might work in IE, but only because IE 
gets it wrong.  Check the specs to see how to centre a div when using a 
standards-compliant browser (hint:  'margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;').

Also, don't expect an image within a centred paragraph to be centered 
within the paragraph if there is any content to the left or right of the 
image.  You'd have to make sure the image is on a separate line or in a 
separate centred paragraph.  What I think you expect to happen does not 
even happen in IE if you have a very wide browser window.

While you're at it, use a proper DOCTYPE to make sure IE works in standards 
mode.  See http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/res_doctype.htm .

There's a couple of other problems too, but I'm sure you can work them out.


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