Posted by Ed Jay on 08/18/05 09:50

Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> wrote:

>Ed Jay wrote:
>
>> "Montgomery BOO...URNS" <solitude439@rcn.com> wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.shobers.com/home.htm (still under construction)
>>
>> When I use:
>> <center><div class=xx>stuff</div></center>
>> and try to validate the page, I get an error message telling me that
>> <center> is deprecated. But, when I validated your page, I only got the
>> error that you had no ending tag for your <center><div>...
>>
>> Where have I gone wrong?
>
>You haven't gone wrong.
>The OP is just using a transitional doctype. That doctype is meant for
>documents which are "in transition". It allows for deprecated
>elements, to make it easier on the person who is editing the page I
>guess :-)
>New documents are best written in Strict, which doesn't allow for
>deprecated heritage from old webpages.

Thanks, although I don't know if I feel better. :-)

I'm having a heck of a time figuring out how to center text or boxes.

Ed Jay (remove M to respond)

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