margin-right/margin-left and auto 1

Rieekan · Oct 21, 2005

Has anyone found instances where setting margin-right and left to auto will not center the page in IE? I cannot find any instances where this should be the case, but for some reason, it's happening. Some psuedo code is below.

Code:

<html>
<head>
<style>
#container { width: 760px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; }
</style>
<body>
<div id="container">
page content goes here
</div>
</body>
</html>

Any help is appreciated!

- George

cLFlaVA · Oct 21, 2005

every single case!

do this:

Code:

<style type="text/css">
body { text-align: center; }
#container { width: 760px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; text-align: right; }
</style>

*cLFlaVA
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Rieekan · Oct 21, 2005

Sometimes the simplest thing just eludes you. heh Should have thought of that.

Thanks!

cLFlaVA · Oct 21, 2005

sorry, i meant [tt]text-align: left;[/tt] for the container!

*cLFlaVA
----------------------------
[tt]your mom goes to college[/tt]
[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.coryarthus.com/[/url]
[banghead]

Rieekan · Oct 21, 2005

I figured that's what you meant. Well, that's the way I implemented it anyway. heh

- George

Vragabond · Oct 21, 2005

In IE6, if you have a complete doctype at the top, you can however center a block level element using margins.

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