Re: FN-FORUM: oh darn it

date posted 1st June 2005 15:56

Tony Crockford wrote:
>
> 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?

Very good! It doesn't centre in IE5 BTW as that version doesn't honour
the auto margin at all...

Paul.