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Centering won't work - absolute/relative problem?

         

denwah

11:36 pm on Mar 27, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I have a positioning problem on a page.

I want the whole page to be centered, but when I center the (second) table, it centes the left edge causing everything to fall off to the right.

Any ideas? I suspect it is some sort of absolute/relative positioning problem but I am too new to this to figure it out.

[edited by: SuzyUK at 7:49 am (utc) on Mar. 28, 2007]
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SuzyUK

7:59 am on Mar 28, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Hi denwah and welcome to WebmasterWorld!

it sounds like there second table is centering according to the text-alignment of the first, if you're centering the first table using text-align center.

a small code sample would help us give the right answer for your code

however you could try wrapping the whole design in "container/wrapper" div which would allow you to center in a way that works with back compat and compliant browsers and preserve your text-aligment too.


pseudo HTML
<body>
<div id="wrap">

all your code....

</div>
</body>

CSS:
body {
...all your rules...
text-align: center;
}

#wrap {
width: 800px; /* adjust to suit your width */
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: left;
}

if that doesn't help.. please post a sample of your code (stripped to just the affected tables if possible) with the CSS

Thanks
Suzy