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HTML used to be so simple... I think it's easier to do CFML than HTML now
with all these CSS, cross browser issues.

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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Johnston
> Sent: 10 December 2004 13:21
> To: Coldfusion Development
> Subject: Re: [CF-Dev] Strange layout behaviour
> 
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> On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 12:03 +0000, Damian Watson wrote:
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> > One way is to have body style of text-align:center then specify a 
> > fixed width for your div. This will center all content 
> however so you 
> > need a style on the div: text-align:left.
> 
> This (unfortunately) is NOT the correct way to do it!  This 
> is broken in various browsers.
> 
> Try this in both Firefox and IE and you'll see what I mean.
> 
> ---code---
> <html>
> <head>
>   <style type="text/css">
>   body {
>     text-align: center;
>   }
>   .centeredDiv {
>     width: 80%;
>     text-align: left;
>     border: 1px solid #666666;
>   }
>   </style>
> </head>
> <body>
> 
> <div class="centeredDiv">
> <p>Hello!</p>
> </div>
> 
> </body>
> </html>
> ---code---
> 
> The div does NOT "center" align at all!  There is actually no 
> simple way of "centering" content using cross-browser CSS in 
> XHTML (wouldn't it be nice if there was).
> 
> For more info on how to "center" properly, take a look at this:
> 
> http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/printthread.php?t=213250
> 
> There are many and varied CSS things out there, but the basic 
> idea is that using:
> 
> margin: 0px auto;
> 
> will center a div in Firefox (and most others) and for IE you do this:
> 
> body {
>       text-align: center;
> }
> #container {
>       margin-left: auto;
>       margin-right: auto;
>       text-align: left;
> }
> 
> This isn't entirely perfect, but works a darn site better 
> than what was previously emailed and works in Firefox!
> 
> Paul
> 
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