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derbz
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Fun with IE - 8/7/2006 3:11:47
Is there an alternative to 'margin: 0 auto;' it seems that IE does not honor it. FireFox centers fine ie6 does screwy things with text-align too.
I'm having trouble finding an answer. Please help 
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Tailslide
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RE: Fun with IE - 8/7/2006 3:24:09
Yeah no problem.
Firstly, if you add in a proper DOCTYPE then IE6 will honour the margin:0 auto; thing. Without a proper DOCTYPE IE6 reverts to non-standards mode and as you've found out ignores it.
The other thing you can do (either with a DOCYTPE to catch IE5 and IE5.5 or without a DOCTYPE to work on IE6 too) is to add text-align:center to the body element which will centre the whole page in IE. Then you normalise the text by adding in text-align:left usually to a containing div lower down in the order so it's like this:
body {text-align:center; (all your other rules here too)}
#container {margin:0 auto; text-align:left;}
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