Topic: What is center anyhow

Here's a stupid question, how might one go about centering a table that has a height of 100%, horizontally in Netscape?



[This message has been edited by Rooster (edited 11-17-2002).]

<center>. Heh. Actually, that's not really necessary. Netscape 4.x misinterprets text-align:center for the table to mean that it should be centered. So try that, and then set text-align:left for the TD's within the table, to cancel it out on browsers that understand text-align properly.

You may also want to run as fast as you can into a brick wall, as that will be more enjoyable than trying to write code that works in Netscape 4.x.

I've tried <center> except if the table isn?t full, it collapses in on it self, making it really hard to make a table that is 100% in height.

And then if you leave the <center> out, the table will expand but no longer be in the center, which really messes up the whole ?center? thing.

And then if you wrap the table in a <div align=?center?> the scroll bars can?t figure out what to do.

And then you figure if you give up the table all together and just use <div> tags it might work out, right. Wrong, because Netscape thinks that 100% should always be 100% of the entire window instead of 100% of the containing element. Why me?

It sounds simple but I?ve trying off and on for literally months now.

I?m trying to do something like this...
http://efs1.com/hfd/index.htm

It works in IE but everything goes to crap in NS and Moz.


Any other ideas?

Are you specifying a width for the table?

Yes, the actual css is: TABLE.main { width: 663px; height: 98%; border: none; }

Netscape deserves to die.

As no one has yet dropped in the FAQ:
http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/841/

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