Stephen Geraghty wrote:
Hi all,
I recently noticed that SeaMonkey pages align left when Internet
Exporer renders them, whereas in Firefox and other browsers they
center align fine.
The only way I have found around this is to insert align="center" in
the html of each table style..... bit of a hassle but thought it would
be okay if I then use that page as a template going forward.
However.. when I edit the properties of a table in any page, in this
instance the table cell spacing, the html command vanishes and I'm
back to the same issue in IE with left alignment!
Am I missing something here or is this a known issue...... and is
there a fix? Do I need to do something in SeaMonkey before I create a
page to ensure it center aligns in IE and what about when i then go to
edit it? Any help would be really appreciated.
Thanks
Stephen,
You are experiencing the differences between a Standards compliant
browser (SeaMonkey), and a mostly non-compliant browser (IE). Note; the
later versions of IE are more compliant (IE-8) than previous versions.
If you want to make SM and IE render your documents correctly (as seen
in SM) then you must begin with a complete DOCTYPE tag in the top of
your documents.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> This is the very first line of
your document. You must include all of the tad from the opening bracket
< to the closing > bracket. If the last quoted string is omitted IE
will not render correctly.
The next requirement is to use CSS2 to format your document content.
Including a "Layer" container will work wonders. <div>....</div>.
The div container should be just before your TABLE tag and the </div>
should be just after the </TABLE> tag.
Within the <div> tag insert the following CSS2 attributes:
style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;
Your <div> tag should look like this:
<div style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">
<TABLE....>
</TABLE>
</div>
Study the use of CSS, it can be an invaluable tool for setting display
properties in your web documents.
Michael G
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