Re: FN-FORUM: Css horizontal alignment

date posted 3rd September 2007 14:30


On 3 Sep 2007, at 14:54, John Deaville wrote:

>
> Can anyone tell me if this aligns centrally horizontally

url?

>
> I am working on a mac - and on my mac - it does in camino and
> safari, but I
> looked on my pc laptop and it does not - in internet explorer - but
> it does
> in firefox
>
> Is this because I have not got the latest version of IE - can
> anyone check
> using the latest version please
>
> I used this CSS statement:
>
> margin: 0 auto;

will center an element with a defined width where its parent has a
wider width.

(Older IE's need text-align: center on body with text-align: left on
a container div.)

>
> I am just learning css, and am trying to use it on anything that I am
> designing from now on - I find it really offputting that you cannot
> preview
> css layouts within dreamweaver design panel - is their any way
> around this

DW's renderer makes a poor attempt of CSS and will confuse you.

get a copy of TextMate or Coda - they have good project management
and if you're just using DW in code view you'll not miss much... get
stuck into the code - you know it makes sense!

;)

>
> I considered setting up two screens - one being a preview within
> the browser
> which I can refresh - how does everyone else work??

I used to have three screens, Now I just have one (30" Dell at
2560x1600)

and I also use:
http://virtuedesktops.info/

hth