Centering and tables in IE5 and 6 (PC)

Do you perhaps have something in there to center (on the page) the
layout table(s) you're using, Janet?  I found that IE5.x and IE6
cascades that down into the individual table cells unless they are
defined to use left alignment.

Donna

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:42:34 -0800, Janet Zagoria-Zagdesign
<janet(at)zagdesign.com> wrote:

>On the lines of problems with IE6, I thought I would pass this on:
>I am on a Mac and do my desktop developing on Safari, IE5, Firefox, etc.
>
>I was developing a site for a client who has Windows, IE6. I have a Windows
>machine I can check out problems but I hadn't gotten to that point yet.
>
>My client told me that type that was supposed to be flush left (aka:
>align=left) was centered on his browser.
>
>Align=left was always a default so there was never a need to put it in the
>TD tag unless you were overriding a CSS command.
>
>Lo and behold, I discovered that only IE6 displayed as centered the text
>that was undesignated as align=left.
>
>As soon as I put in align=left in all the TDs (or could have done it at the
>CSS level), it corrected the problem.
>
>-------
>Janet Zagoria
>Web Site Designer/Developer
>www.zagdesign.com
>
>
>

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