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Posted by Els on 11/19/33 11:34
Curtis wrote:
> 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.
You asked a negative: 'any reason why we *shoudn't* ...'.
>> <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.
I use both.
<div>
<table>....</table>
</div>
div{text-align:center;}
table{margin-auto;width:15em;text-align:left;}
Works cross-browser.
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