If you don't put any widths in your table or the cells, the table will take
up as much space as it needs.

As regards the centring of the table,<.div align="center"> should work.
Make sure that you do not have anything after your table which is pushing it
off to one side.

The style command will not align it as 'align' is not a style property.

Pippa

-----Original Message-----
From: Raj Bhaskar [mailto:raj(at)lordofthemoon.com]
Sent: 12 March 2002 12:46
To: hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
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.
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IT Education Unit, University of Glasgow
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