Fluid centering with DIV's?

Trying to get out of the table habit

[dhdweb]

You all know how easy it is to center a table and have it fluid with window size, right?

This may be a dumb question but, How do I do this with a DIV?

No matter the window size I want it centered!

Thanks in advance,
dhdweb

[mivox]

Any luck yet? I must admit to being stumped... it may well be impossible with current borwsers and standards. :(

[dhdweb]

MCookie's solution works great untill you want to add more DIV's that follow the centered DIV.

I ended up resorting to left aligned solution, and then added a color fade to right side to use the empty space on higher resolutions.

Why can't CSS have <div style="position:center">?

Maybe an oversight?

Maybe in the next version?

Who knows! :)

[tedster]

I've given up on this for now. Tables are still my friend for centering an entire layout - which I agree looks much better for many sites than a flush left orientation.

I believe that setting margin-left:auto and margin-right:auto (along with setting a width for the div) "should" do the trick in a browser that supports standards perfectly. But that's certainly not what we have at present.

Even instructions as simple as margin-left:20% margin-right:20% do not result in centered content on Explorer. The right margin is always bigger than the left margin. Trying to set the padding is even worse.

[antidote]

I kind of skimmed over the previous posts. Was this said?

body {
text-align: center
}
div.body {
margin: auto:
text-align: left;
}

I don't even text NN4.XX anymore as it is such as small % of my visitors.