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Posted by Curtis on 11/19/82 11:34
Toby Inkster <usenet200512@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote in
message news:pab173-s1o.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk...
> Curtis wrote:
>
> > <table style="margin-left: 15%; margin-right: 15%;
width:
> > 70%;">
> > Any reason why we shouldn't stick with this syntax?
>
> Nope. Margins are the correct way to centre a block-level
element. You can
> abbreviate your example like this:
>
> <table style="margin:0 15%;width:70%">
> The following should also be equivalent:
I'm afraid you lost me, Toby. You said no, then said margins
were the correct way.
>
> <table style="margin:auto;width:70%">
> but doesn't work in IE 5.x.
The whole point was the cross-browser compatibility, though.
Our website gets a lot of hits from IE 5.X users.
> It only saves one byte though, so margin:auto
> probably isn't much use in this example -- it does however
become useful
> when you don't know the percentage width of the table.
e.g.
>
> <table style="margin:auto;width:15em">
Margin auto works great for Firefox and Opera, but fails for
IE 5--I haven't tested on 6 yet, but no matter. If it fails
on 5, we won't use it.
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