DOCTYPES and default
Being an avid reader of Zeldman and A List Apart, I changed the doctype on a site that I am working on after reading THIS ARTICLE the other day.
I was using:
but changed it to:
This morning as I started editing the site, I noticed that almost everything was centered. :eek: and the DHTML menu wasn't displaying as usual. I tired to set the to align left in Dreamweaver but it aligned the instead. After blaming my husband for messing with my computer (bless his innocent heart) and scratching my head believing that I had lost my mind, I have come to the conclusion that the align defaults for the doctype below are centered.
And the align default for this one is left.
Any comments on this alignment issue?
disaster-master posted this at 17:29 — 14th April 2002.
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UPDATE: I have tried to reproduce the above errors (or incident) and can't get it do it again.
Hence, my new conclusion is that I have lost it and am crazy.
No need to comment on my state of mind. LOL
Suzanne posted this at 22:44 — 14th April 2002.
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you haven't lost it.
Hold on, I have a link for you.
Suzanne posted this at 22:47 — 14th April 2002.
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http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/docs/articles/img-table/
this explains the problem.
Using an earlier doctype:
Also works.
Netscape 6 with table layouts has wicked problems if you use the "valid" DOCTYPE.
Additionally, IE6 (? maybe) defaults to centered instead of left, breaking convention. Zeldman noted that in his updates a week or so ago.
disaster-master posted this at 02:23 — 15th April 2002.
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Hey thanks for letting everyone know that I am really not crazy. hehehe I just knew that I would get kicked out of the forum for this one and probably accused of being mentally unstable. WHEW!!!:ezbill:
I read the article that you posted a while back but had forgotten about it. I will just have to use a doctype without the url. It works fine that way.
I can see how the new doctype would mess with the HTML but why was it messing with Dreamweaver by not letting me do ? That one has me stumped.
Busy posted this at 05:45 — 15th April 2002.
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I can see how the new doctype would mess with the HTML but why was it messing with Dreamweaver by not letting me do ? That one has me stumped.
Could be since default is left is not allowing it, have you changed default to something else? does it allow ? (default bold and center)
disaster-master posted this at 14:10 — 15th April 2002.
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Busy, it didn't affect table headers.
I didn't change any defaults (wouldn't know how to do that
)
disaster-master posted this at 02:48 — 17th April 2002.
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I found another article on IE 6 and DTD centering table content if anyone here is interested.
http://www.evolt.org/article/Does_IE_6_Center_Your_Table_Content/17/15341/
Suzanne posted this at 05:03 — 17th April 2002.
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Does that one explain how you just need to add "text-align:center;" to the body tag to get around it? If not I'll dig up that url.
disaster-master posted this at 05:19 — 17th April 2002.
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no it just talks about eliminating the URI portion of the doctype declaration.
Busy posted this at 05:26 — 17th April 2002.
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why cant they just pick one way and stick to it *sigh*
Suzanne posted this at 05:40 — 17th April 2002.
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To get around the IE centering bug issue:
http://bluerobot.com/web/css/center1.html
disaster-master posted this at 05:58 — 17th April 2002.
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LOL...a hack to hack a hack.:blue:
From bluerobots style:
body {
margin:50px 0px; padding:0px; /* Need to set body margin and padding to get consistency between browsers. */
text-align:center; /* Hack for IE5/Win */ }
#Content {
width:500px;
margin:0px auto; /* Right and left margin widths set to "auto" */
text-align:left; /* Counteract to IE5/Win Hack */
padding:15px;
border:1px dashed #333;
background-color:#eee;
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