margin: auto

Updating my bag of tricks again.

What's the level of support for margin: auto. Is this widely
supported now amongst almost all browsers?

It's a common request to have a "centered" page. I don't remember
which major browser didn't support margin: auto, but there was a common
hack with some "text-aligns". Is it time to drop the hack?

Jeff

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:50:42 +0100, Jeff <jeff (AT) spam_me_not (DOT) com> wrote:

Updating my bag of tricks again.

What's the level of support for margin: auto. Is this widely
supported now amongst almost all browsers?

Save MSIE6 and lower.

It's a common request to have a "centered" page. I don't remember
which major browser didn't support margin: auto, but there was a common
hack with some "text-aligns". Is it time to drop the hack?

Nope, MSIE6 still needs it. margin:auto on the element for any other
browser, text-align:center on the parent element for MSIE6.
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Rik Wasmus

In article <13rudd4o354c1a2 (AT) corp (DOT) supernews.com>,
Jeff <jeff (AT) spam_me_not (DOT) com> wrote:

Updating my bag of tricks again.

What's the level of support for margin: auto. Is this widely
supported now amongst almost all browsers?

It's a common request to have a "centered" page. I don't remember
which major browser didn't support margin: auto, but there was a common
hack with some "text-aligns". Is it time to drop the hack?

IE 6 is the one to worry about. It will not centre a block with
margin: auto and a width.

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dorayme

Rik Wasmus wrote:

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:50:42 +0100, Jeff <jeff (AT) spam_me_not (DOT) com> wrote:

It's a common request to have a "centered" page. I don't remember
which major browser didn't support margin: auto, but there was a common
hack with some "text-aligns". Is it time to drop the hack?

Nope, MSIE6 still needs it.

Nope, IE6 does *not* need it, at least not in standards mode.
Margin:auto works perfectly fine. IE5.x doesn't grok it, but who cares?

You shouldn't be coding for quirks mode any more anyway.

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Berg

dorayme wrote:

In article <13rudd4o354c1a2 (AT) corp (DOT) supernews.com>,
Jeff <jeff (AT) spam_me_not (DOT) com> wrote:

What's the level of support for margin: auto. Is this widely
supported now amongst almost all browsers?

IE 6 is the one to worry about. It will not centre a block with
margin: auto and a width.

bollocks

I use margin:auto all the time. It works perfectly fine in IE6.

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Berg

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:41:21 +0100, Bergamot <bergamot (AT) visi (DOT) com> wrote:

Rik Wasmus wrote:
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:50:42 +0100, Jeff <jeff (AT) spam_me_not (DOT) com> wrote:

It's a common request to have a "centered" page. I don't remember
which major browser didn't support margin: auto, but there was a common
hack with some "text-aligns". Is it time to drop the hack?

Nope, MSIE6 still needs it.

Nope, IE6 does *not* need it, at least not in standards mode.

Ah, most of my pages are valid strict 4.01, did seem to run into troubles
a time ago, maybe I used a lousy doctype back then...

Margin:auto works perfectly fine. IE5.x doesn't grok it, but who cares?
You shouldn't be coding for quirks mode any more anyway.

Amen.
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Rik Wasmus

In article <6291gtF21882rU2 (AT) mid (DOT) individual.net>,
Bergamot <bergamot (AT) visi (DOT) com> wrote:

dorayme wrote:
In article <13rudd4o354c1a2 (AT) corp (DOT) supernews.com>,
Jeff <jeff (AT) spam_me_not (DOT) com> wrote:

What's the level of support for margin: auto. Is this widely
supported now amongst almost all browsers?

IE 6 is the one to worry about. It will not centre a block with
margin: auto and a width under some circumstances.

bollocks

I use margin:auto all the time. It works perfectly fine in IE6.

Perhaps you missed the words "under some circumstances" <g>

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dorayme