rockinaway Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 My website works fine in Firefox. You can see it here: http://www.etcworld.co.uk/ I want it centered with a max width of 795px. However, in IE, it forgets this and stretches the page edge-to-edge of the browser. When I removed 'margin:auto' from the CSS, then the IE page pushed off the edge like I wanted it to, but it's width didn't decrease. What should I do? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/100532-alignment-width-with-ie/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosizzle Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Did you try margin: 0px auto; IE can be really stupid and you have to REALLY specify what you want Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/100532-alignment-width-with-ie/#findComment-514242 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockinaway Posted April 11, 2008 Author Share Posted April 11, 2008 Nope.. same problem.. damn IE!! Any other help? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/100532-alignment-width-with-ie/#findComment-514896 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosizzle Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 I was looking over your source and saw you're using tables - is there any way to eliminate this? Tables arent the best play toy. I'm not saying they're a sin to use... they just don't play well. For a centered margin layout. You want to have a main container holding everything. This main container is set to margin: 0, auto. the following containers inside should float left/right or be positioned relative. I know this is a step back, but understanding this technique will save A LOT of head aches. Once you get the ball rolling its really not hard to understand and you'll forever wonder why tables even existed. Keep posting with questions though! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/100532-alignment-width-with-ie/#findComment-514911 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockinaway Posted April 11, 2008 Author Share Posted April 11, 2008 Hmm. Can you give me an example of how to convert the current stuff to tables? And I sorted the problems.. forgot DocType and all that Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/100532-alignment-width-with-ie/#findComment-514916 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosizzle Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Current stuff to tables, im saying that its not the best idea to use tables. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/100532-alignment-width-with-ie/#findComment-514954 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockinaway Posted April 11, 2008 Author Share Posted April 11, 2008 I mean from tables, sorry An example? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/100532-alignment-width-with-ie/#findComment-515067 Share on other sites More sharing options...
haku Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 That's beyond the scope of a single thread. You should look into learning CSS, that is the coding you will use to replace tables. Tables do have their place - for tabular data (cross referencing data in columns and rows). They just aren't good for layout. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/100532-alignment-width-with-ie/#findComment-515128 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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