[thelist] table cells suddenly centering...

[Robin Hastings]

Actually, I ran into this problem the other day - I went into my page and 
removed all of the "center" code I could find and it still centered my text. 
Once I went in and explicitly labeled my td's with align="left", it stopped 
happening. I actually never made the connection between the sudden centering 
of that page and my upgrade of IE! Now I'm going to have to go look at *all* 
of my pages to see if I need to add the left aligning to them!! Thanks for 
the tips!

Robin Hastings
webmistress
InterTec Designs
http://www.intertecdesigns.com -in the midst of a move now and not accessible 
:( 

On Thursday 30 August 2001 06:30 pm, you wrote:
> Rewd --
>
> I haven't actually tested this, because I'm not upgrading just yet, but
> I did see it happen on one of my pages using somebody else's machine.
>
> On my site, I assumed that the nested table was actually inheriting a
> declared align="center" attribute in a parent cell. In my case, I was
> centering a log in box on a big page.
>
> It doesn't change the fact that you'll apparently have to specifically
> set your alignment, but I'm curious, since the problem hasn't been
> reported by more people ...
>
> Can anyone test that? Centered horizontal alignment default or
> inherited in IE6?
>
> David
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "rudy" <r937 at interlog.com>
> Date: Thursday, August 30, 2001 3:19 pm
> Subject: [thelist] table cells suddenly centering...
>
> > my apologies if you get this twice
> >
> > posted in error to thesite
> >
> > those folks are good (after all, they are all evolticians)
> > but i really did mean to ask this question here instead...
> >
> > <>><><><><>
> >
> > can't remember where i heard that there was a solution for this...
> >
> > apparently in ie6 table cells no longer default their contents left,
> > everything is centered
> >
> > i am not about to install ie6 (and that's a different thread) so i
> > cannottest the workarounds myself
> >
> > anybody know the right way to restore things?
> >
> > i suppose the brute force way is to change <td> to <td align="left">?
> >
> > does TD { text-align: left } fix it?
> >
> > what about the doctype, any influence of "quirks" mode or whatever
> > microsoft calls it?
> >
> >
> > rudy