RE: CSS to center a table?

You don't need three table cells:


 <table style="width:100%;height:100%;text-align:center;border:1px solid
#c0c0c0;">
  <tr>
   <td style="vertical-align:middle;">
    <table style="text-align:left;border:1px solid blue;">
     <tr>
      <td>test</td>
     </tr>
    </table>
   </td>
  </tr>
 </table>

The problem is, "vertical-align" can only be applied to (from what I
know of)  COL, IMG, SPAN, and TR/TD/TFOOT/THEAD/TBODY.

Regards,
Manos

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ches [mailto:ches@io.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 4:47 PM
> To: www-style@w3.org
> Subject: Re: CSS to center a table?
> 
> 
> I have found that nesting tables has produced the centering 
> of the table
> effect. This is bad coding however and I would recommend that 
> a better way
> of aligning tables independently be found and used. The 
> initial table cell
> needs to have something in it, either a blank image that is 
> sized to the
> width of your page or some text in order for the nested table 
> to center.
> 
> <TABLE border="2">
>   <tr>
>     <td>hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh</td>
>   </tr>
>   <tr>
>     <td style="text-align: center">
>       <table border="2">
>      <tr>
>     <td>test</td>
>   </tr>
>       </TABLE>
>     </TD>
>   </tr>
> </table>
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> Franchesca Havas
> McKinney, Texas
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael D. Crawford (by way of Al Gilman 
> <asgilman@iamdigex.net>)"
> <crawford@goingware.com>
> To: <www-style@w3.org>
> Cc: "Michael D. Crawford" <crawford@goingware.com>; 
> <fahrner@pobox.com>
> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 10:30 AM
> Subject: CSS to center a table?
> 
> 
> > [redirected from www-talk -Al]
> >
> > Is there a way to use cascading stylesheets to center a table
> > horizontally on a page?
> >
> > I can give offsets in absolute values or percentages from 
> the left or
> > right, but my tables have different widths. I'd like each 
> table in my
> > page to be centered no matter how wide or narrow it may be, 
> using the
> > same class for such tables.
> >
> > What happens when I try using text-align on the table is 
> that the text
> > in the tables cells is centered within the cells. I want 
> the cell text
> > to be left justified but for the table to be centered as a whole.
> >
> > (Actually, checking other browsers, in Netscape 4.73 on 
> Linux nothing
> > happens, and Mozilla 0.9 on the Mac I get the behaviour I 
> describe. I
> > can't get Netscape on the Mac to pick up stylesheets from a 
> linked file.
> > Internet Explorer 4.01 on the Mac does what I want. What's 
> the deal?)
> >
> > Here's my first attempt:
> >
> > In article.css:
> >
> > <!-- My CSS
> > table.center {text-align: center}
> > -->
> >
> > in my article:
> >
> > <table class="center">
> > <tr><td>Some Text</td></tr>
> > <tr><td>Some Longer Text</td></tr>
> > </table>
> >
> > This comes out like the following, with the text centered 
> in the cells:
> >
> >
> > Some Text
> > Some Longer Text
> >
> > What I want is the following, with the text left-justified 
> in the cells
> > but the whole table centered:
> >
> > Some Text
> > Some Longer Text
> >
> 
>

Received on Monday, 21 May 2001 10:33:59 UTC