Re: CSS - DIV & IE

Ran into the same question myself, as apparently many others have.   Here is
the answer:
http://www.evolt.org/article/Does_IE_6_Center_Your_Table_Content/17/15341/in
dex.html

Mike


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Lyle" <nathan(at)upwebmaestro.com>
To: "hwg-techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 12:25 AM
Subject: CSS - DIV & IE


> My frustration for the evening is an attempt to find out why the text
> inside tables that are centered inside a <.div></.div> pair is
> centered along with the table itself in Internet Explorer 6 (but not
> in 5 - also not in Netscape or Mozilla.)
>
> A code example would be:
>
> <div align="center">
> <table border="0">
> <tr><td>Column one heading</td>
>     <td>Column two heading</td>
> </tr>
> <tr><td>'nother row</td>
>     <td>and more</td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> </div>
>
> The same thing also seems to happen if instead of the table being
> inside a DIV it's inside another table cell that's centered:
>
> <td align="center"> (table here) </td>
>
> I'm guessing it has something to do with inheritence, but is IE6 the
> buggy or correct rendering? Every other browser I've tested it in does
> what I was wanting and hoped for.
>
> A screen capture is also available at
> www.upwebmaestro.com/divexample.jpg which shows what's happening in IE6.
>
> ~ Nathan Lyle (The U.P. Web Maestro)
>
>      www.upwebmaestro.com
>      nathan(at)upwebmaestro.com
>      (906)485-4806
>
>     "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
>      - Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science,
1949.
>

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