center dive in IE 1

[IPGuru]

I am trying to center a div with the following

#Content {
 width=400px;
 margin-left:auto;
 margin-right:auto;
}

<div id="Content">
various text & other things
</div>

& suprise suprise it does not work in IE
am i missing anything obvious?

 

[Vragabond]

You are. In CSS, you delimit attributes and values with colon (like the margins) not with the equal sign. You have placed an equal sign erroneously in the width attribute. IE is forgiving and guesses you meant to use a colon, but other browsers are stricter.

If you change the equal sign to colon it will all work as expected.

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[IPGuru]

The '=' was a typo
I was using ':' in my CSS however I was being a bigger idiot
My doctype definition was not the 1st line output so IE was running in Quirks mode

Obviously this was not a problem with a properly behaved browser
Many thanks for the reply I am sure it will help others