On 9 June 2010 20:52, TriState Advantage, Kris Jacobson <[email protected]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lesley Binks" <[email protected]> > To: "TriState Advantage, Kris Jacobson" <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 1:02 PM > Subject: Re: [css-d] help needed > > >> I'm no CSS expert by any means but in your css file you have >> html, body { color: black; font-size: medium; font-family: Arial, >> Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; margin: 0px; padding: 0px } >> body { color: black; font-size: medium; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, >> Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; background-image: >> url(graphics/graytile.gif) } >> >> As far as I can recall, you can shorten the second statement to >> body {background-image: url(graphics graytile.gif)} >> >> because all the other styling will be inherited from the first >> statement. Repeating it might seem easier from a development >> viewpoint but you make a maintenance problem in that you have the font >> stack listed in more than one place so you have to repeat any changes >> you might want to make. That's just extra work. >> >> I would also add the generic sans-serif to the end of your font stack. >> >> I am not sure about later IEs but IE6 almost certainly needed a fudge >> to centre properly >> >> You need >> >> body { text-align:center } >> >> and then correct your text alignment in the container div with : >> >> container { text-align:left} >> >> Hope that helps. Please say if that fixes your problem. >> >> Regards >> >> Lesley >> > Thank you, but I think that is right. The template had text-align: center > and I couldn't figure out why. Don't have time to test it now but will > tomorrow and reply back if it does. > As for the font statement, I thought I remembered from a class I took that > you needed to do that to validate. I will have go back to my books and > review this. > Kris J > The body {text-align:center} is a trick to get IE to render centred pages. Otherwise IE won't display the body centred in the page. This might be relevant for your reading : http://css-discuss.incutio.com/wiki/Centering_Block_Element#Centering_an_entire_page.27s_contents
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