• Registered: 2007-06-30
  • Posts: 9

Topic: post lines centered in IE6

The text lines in the body of the post appear just fine in Firefox, but the same posts in IE6 show up with every line centered on the page.

It turns out that my site common header file has a <div align="center"> to center the whole page in the browser window. But while Firefox ignores that align at a deeper level of nesting, leaving the forum posts aligned left, IE applies that div alignment to everything deeper. The solution was to close the div at the end of my header include file, making it work in both Firefox and IE.

Darn those browser differences.

--gary
http://howto.fiziwig.com/

2 Reply by Paul

  • Paul
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  • From: Wales, UK.
  • Registered: 2003-08-13
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Re: post lines centered in IE6

The problem isn't browser differences in rendering, the real problem is that a great deal of the markup used for the site isn't valid xhtml which is what PunBB uses. For example, the "align" attribute, along with many other attributes, doesn't exist in xhtml which requires that alignment be handled via css. What you are actually seeing is differences in browser error handling.

  • Registered: 2007-06-30
  • Posts: 9

Re: post lines centered in IE6

AHA! Time to revisit my site html. Most of it is in css, but a few old habits slipped through.