CSS Question

[Erik Price]

On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 10:04  AM, Cole Tuininga wrote:

> I would have imagined that with css (using inline style sheet defs), I
> would simply do this:
>
> <div style="text-align: center">
>     <table ....>
>     .
>     .
>     </table>
> </div>
>
> This works just ducky in Netscape 4.7x, but not my current version of
> mozilla.  Does anybody know what I need to do instead?  I don't want to
> static position the table, I would like it to be centered.

This problem has plagued me, I have solved it, and then I have 
forgotten how I solved it and had it plague me again.

I am pretty sure that the workaround* is to use

<div style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">
   <table ...>
   .
   .
   .
   </table>
</div>

But YMMV since I can't remember for sure.  text-align only applies to 
text.


Erik


* I find it ironic that workarounds in CSS are sometimes necessary, 
since one of the reasons people sometimes use CSS is to avoid misusing 
tables for composing a design in HTML, which was itself a workaround 
for the limitations of HTML.....