Depends on the version of IE and the doctype. IE 6 in standards mode (full
valid doctype of HTML 4.01 Strict or XHTML) will use margin-auto but in any
event unless your content is constrained by a container inside div#container
it will expand to fill the space so there will be no margins.
Personally I don't bother with the first part. People using earlier browsers
can get it left aligned so I go with the simpler code:
#container {width: 740px; margin: 0 auto;}
Cheryl D. Wise
Certified Professional Web Developer
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-----Original Message-----
From: Howard Cheng
"text-align: center" is really only supposed to apply to text and it works
in IE only because IE doesn't interpret it properly.
The CORRECT way to do it is:
body {
text-align: center;
} /* for IE */
div#container {
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: left;
} /* for standards-compliant browsers */
<html>
<body>
<div id="container">
</div>
</body>
</html>
The "margin" setting means 0 for top and bottom, and auto margins for left
and right, which throws the div into the center.
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