Doesn't center in internet explorer

georgeuk · Jun 23, 2007

hello there im working on a website. my problem is that it doesnt center in internet explorer. in mozilla firefox it does tho, what can be done. here is the code attached. i have renamed the filenames so i can upload them. the index_css.txt is supposed to be index.css and the index.txt is supposed to be index.html

thank u

shockie · Jun 23, 2007

try putting a center tag between your body tag and container div (and a closing one at the bottom)

Dan · Jun 23, 2007

Add

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

To the top of your index.

Skinny · Jun 23, 2007

Using the center tag is rather dated. The following approach uses CSS.

I don't have time to look at your code unfortunately but this works with all browsers.

Say you want to center the whole website and say there was a container div with class= "container"

Code:

<div class="container">
THE WHOLE SITE HERE
</div>

Then you would put in your css

Code:

div.container{margin: 0 auto}

This thing works and I've used it time and time again to get my stuff to center in all types of browsers. Of course you can modify that code but makes sure that that css code is applied to whatever you are centering.

Hope it works for you.

Skinny

Dan · Jun 23, 2007

Skinny, that's what he's using already.

shockie · Jun 23, 2007

dated but guaranteed (by me) to work! i do it with my sites, and it all validates anyway. only downside is it could take a good few minutes to apply it to all your pages, but you're very unlikely to every change that property anyway. centering the whole container will always be in style... center tags ftw!

Dave · Jun 24, 2007

This is how to do it with CSS.

Code:

body
{
    text-align: center;
}
#container
{
    text-align: left;
    margin: 0 auto;
    text-align: left;
}

Then in your HTML file...

Code:

<body>
    <div id="container">
         <p>Bla</p>
    </div>
</body>

:bingo:

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