HI Jason, That's exactly what I needed -- many thanks indeed! Works a treat.
Cheers, Martin "Jason Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > text-align by definition is for aligning text. > A <div> element is *not* text. > Therefore text-align should not affect the alignment of the <div> within > its container, only the text within it. MSIE is incorrectly "aligning" > the <div> based on text-align. > > Instead, use the CSS constrainment rules: if an element has all but one > of its box properties set to an explicit length, then that one property > will have to expand to fill the space of its containing block. > > For instance: > div {width:200px;padding:0px;border:0px;margin:0px;margin-left:auto;} > > Since everything is constrained except the margin-left, then the left > margin will expand to fill the extra space within the containing block, > giving the effect of "right-aligning" the <div>. > > It is possible to use this correct method in addition to the incorrect > "text-align" method to ensure cross-browser compatibility. > > Hope this helps > --J > > > > Martin Holmes wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > If a DIV element contains other, smaller DIV elements, and the parent div > > has "text-align: right" in its style, then presumably the descendant DIVs > > should be aligned against the right side of the parent. This is indeed what > > happens in IE5.5 and IE6, but not in NS (6.01 through 6.2). Here's an > > example: > > > > http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/iesvic/website/ > > > > If you click on the "Research" menu item, it should expand to show six > > subitems. In IE these are aligned to the right, but NS seems to ignore this > > setting and align them to the left. Can anyone confirm this is a bug, and if > > so, is there a workaround? > > > > Cheers, > > Martin > > > > > > > >
