Gary Turner wrote:

> The single celled table works very well.  With only one cell, there is
> little incremental markup weight, and no accessibility penalty.  An
> example may be seen at <http://garyblue.port5.com/webdev/vcenter.html>.

I agree perfectly that the use of tables may in some cases be helpful, but
in this specific case the offender (in the original page) was Mac IE, that
still has problems even with the single cell table.
AKAIK, the source of the Mac IE problem is that there is only a combination
of  height:100%  on html, body, wrapper that really works to "fill" the
viewport, and this is:
 - quirks mode,
 - no specified height on html,
 - height:100% on a wrapper (table or whatever)
Satisfy these conditions and then the single-cell-table and some of the
other "dead center" solutions work in IE/Mac.
In cases (all?) when the "quirks mode" requirement  rules out this solution,
the best thing is probably to hide any attempt of "viewport vertical
centering" to IE/Mac.  Of course maybe there are other IE/Mac solutions, but
I haven't seen any.

Bruno

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