a simple question (I think)

Colm Osiris · #1 Feb 4th, 2006, 18:44

hallo

I'm new here. I've been coding HTML for a long time, but never used forums much before. So I have a question which is very basic, but I've never found an answer yet.

Within my HTML 4 Transitional page, there is one main table. I want this table to appear in the middle of the page, however wide it is.

The following don't work:

a) <body align="center">

b) <body>
<table class="maintable">

and in the CSS:

.maintable {text-align: center;}

The only way I can get it to work is to say:

<table align="center">

Surely there's a way I can do this in CSS, so that it will be centered in any browser?

TIA :-)

Ward · #2 Feb 5th, 2006, 08:26

Try this with inline css.

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<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {text-align:center;}
table {margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;}
</style>
</head>

<body>
<table width="300" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#000099">
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
</table>

</body>

Colm Osiris · #3 Feb 5th, 2006, 09:17

Thank you very much, Ward, that works a treat :-)

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