Try using <.center> tags instead of the <.div> tags and see if that will do
it.

Thanks,
Keith D Sellars
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Raj Bhaskar" <raj(at)lordofthemoon.com>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 7:45 AM
Subject: Centring a table on a page with CSS


> Hi folks,
> I've got a table on a page that I'm trying to centre as follows:
>
> <.div align="center" id="main">
> <.table>
> ... usual table stuff here ...
> <./table>
> <./div>
>
> but it won't do it, the table remains centred to the left.  I'm guessing
> that something in my stylesheet is causing problems so I've enclosed
> the appropriate class here:
>
> #main {background-color: #ffffff;
> border: 10px solid white;
> width: 650px;
> align: center;}
>
> Also, I don't want to put in an explicit width here, but if I don't then
the
> table will stretch to the full width of the page.  Is there any way around
> this (to have the table/div be only the width of the largest element).
>
> TIA,
> Raj.
> --
> Rajnish Bhaskar
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