disaster-master — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 05:58:21 +0000

LOL...a hack to hack a hack.:blue:

From bluerobots style:

body {
margin:50px 0px; padding:0px; /* Need to set body margin and padding to get consistency between browsers. */
text-align:center; /* Hack for IE5/Win */ }

#Content {
width:500px;
margin:0px auto; /* Right and left margin widths set to "auto" */
text-align:left; /* Counteract to IE5/Win Hack */
padding:15px;
border:1px dashed #333;
background-color:#eee;

Suzanne — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 05:40:16 +0000

To get around the IE centering bug issue:

http://bluerobot.com/web/css/center1.html

Busy — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 05:26:27 +0000

why cant they just pick one way and stick to it *sigh*

disaster-master — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 05:19:59 +0000

no it just talks about eliminating the URI portion of the doctype declaration.

Suzanne — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 05:03:49 +0000

Does that one explain how you just need to add "text-align:center;" to the body tag to get around it? If not I'll dig up that url.

disaster-master — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 02:48:29 +0000

I found another article on IE 6 and DTD centering table content if anyone here is interested.

http://www.evolt.org/article/Does_IE_6_Center_Your_Table_Content/17/15341/

disaster-master — Mon, 15 Apr 2002 14:10:50 +0000

Busy, it didn't affect table headers.

I didn't change any defaults (wouldn't know how to do that )

Busy — Mon, 15 Apr 2002 05:45:29 +0000

I can see how the new doctype would mess with the HTML but why was it messing with Dreamweaver by not letting me do ? That one has me stumped.

Could be since default is left is not allowing it, have you changed default to something else? does it allow ? (default bold and center)

disaster-master — Mon, 15 Apr 2002 02:23:06 +0000

Hey thanks for letting everyone know that I am really not crazy. hehehe I just knew that I would get kicked out of the forum for this one and probably accused of being mentally unstable. WHEW!!!:ezbill:

I read the article that you posted a while back but had forgotten about it. I will just have to use a doctype without the url. It works fine that way.

I can see how the new doctype would mess with the HTML but why was it messing with Dreamweaver by not letting me do ? That one has me stumped.

Suzanne — Sun, 14 Apr 2002 22:47:32 +0000

http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/docs/articles/img-table/

this explains the problem.

Using an earlier doctype:

Also works.

Netscape 6 with table layouts has wicked problems if you use the "valid" DOCTYPE.

Additionally, IE6 (? maybe) defaults to centered instead of left, breaking convention. Zeldman noted that in his updates a week or so ago.