Re: FN-FORUM: oh darn it

date posted 1st June 2005 15:54

On 1 Jun 2005 15:10:55 -0000, "Tony Crockford" said:
> Beston wrote:
> >
> > but how is it that on:
> > http://www.benzographology.co.uk/thisiscentred
> >
> > there arent any center tags on and it aligns in IE
> >
> > but on
> >
> > http://deltatraffic.co.uk/dursign/deltatraffic.htm
>
> because the first has a valid doctype, which puts IE6 SP2 into standards
> mode and it honors the margin: auto.
>
> deltatraffic has no doctype, so IE goes into quirks mode and doesn't
> honor the margin:auto
>
> hows that?

Good spot! Somehow I always miss when people aren't using a valid
doctype, and it always stuffs up your CSS without one.


Paul