jo5eph — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 00:59:52 +0000

Point taken,

whole site now validates html and css!

Joe

Suzanne — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 16:30:24 +0000

well, yes -- for accessibility, for forwards compatibility, and for ease of editing. If they don't work in the element, you have errors in your code. Standards are important for many reasons, the LEAST of which is "being correct".

Validate.

http://validator.w3.org
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

jo5eph — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 16:08:58 +0000

OK,

You had me puzzled at first because i hadnt got any margins or padding. After scratching my head for a while I redefined in css as having 0 padding and 0 margin. Of course it did the trick. Cheers, that one has been buggin me for ages (i do research the forums and google alot, just never found the answer for that one).

Also I know you are right about the internal 's needing to be in head. but when i move them there they stop working, as the site works in IE mozilla and opera ok as is, is there any reason to sort it out, other than for the sake of correctness?

Thanks Again,

Joe

Suzanne — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 15:24:43 +0000

.maintable {
height: 800px;
width: 100%; /* this should have it flush to the sides unless you have padding/margins in the containing element */
text-align: center; /* this centers the text WITHIN the table, not the table */
margin: auto; /* this centers the table */
}

body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

Also, the element can ONLY go in the element.