- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:07:54 -0800 (PST)
- To: Tom Gilder <tom@tom.me.uk>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Tom Gilder wrote: > > On Friday, February 28, 2003, 7:44:16 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > No, in the case of Opera7 and IE6, the right margin becomes negative while > > the left margin is zero, while in Mozilla's case the two margins are both > > equal to the same negative value. > > Thanks to all who replied. > > So (going a tiny bit OT here) within the CSS specification, is there any > way of emulating Op7/IE6's behavior, presuming that the browser doesn't > support left-scrolling (as Mozilla does not)? > > It's slightly irritating that I can't find a way to center an entire > page, without it going off the page in at least one browser (other than > using max-width hacks) - really is a quite ridiculous state of affairs :/ width: 20em; /* your preferred width */ max-width: 100%; /* prevent the width from exceeding the viewport */ margin: auto; /* center it horizontally */ ...should do the trick, and is not a hack, it's exactly the intended use of the properties. -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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