RE: align="center"

From: Ian Anderson <ianderso@cogeco.ca> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:56:00 -0400 To: "'Gannon J. Dick'" <gdick@verizon.net> Cc: <www-validator@w3.org> Message-ID: <000a01c25ffd$6ee10340$0101a8c0@enoch> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Thursday, 1 October 2009 14:48:45 GMT

Technically the text-align behaviour that this document relies on is
incorrect (at least from what I've read). Text align is only supposed to
affect text, not images or tables. I believe the preferred method (which
doesn't work in Internet Explorer) is to set the left and right margins
to auto.

-----Original Message-----
From: www-validator-request@w3.org [mailto:www-validator-request@w3.org]
On Behalf Of Gannon J. Dick
Sent: September 19, 2002 10:28 AM
To: www-validator@w3.org
Subject: Re: align="center"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
 <title>Centering</title>
</head>
<body>
 <div style="text-align:center">
  <table>
     <tr><td>some text</td></tr>
  </table>
 </div>
</body>
</html>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: bronco <mailto:bronco@cwo.com>  
To: www-validator@w3.org 
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: align="center"

so, what can one use to replace align="center" with <div>.  The notes
that I see say to use styles instead, but so far have offered no
examples.

it may be a simple technique, but I haven't found one yet.  let's say I
want to replace this with <div>

<body>
<table align="center">
  <tr><td>some text</td></tr>
</table>

what would it look like?

thanks,
steve