[thelist] table cells suddenly centering...

Fri Aug 31 05:52:35 CDT 2001

> >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!
> 
> I'm on a Mac, so I can't test IE 6. Can we clarify here which IE 6 is 
> rendering?
> 
> What we first discussed, that nested tables are inheriting the 
> alignment of the parent <td>,
> or does IE 6 actually default to cells align=center, which is not the
standard?
> 

Righty ho, I fired up my shiny new install of IE 6 final release (on Win2k),
and did two tests - one with just an <html> at the top of the page, and one
with the XHTML 1.0 strict DTD and an <html
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">.

After the <html> tag, I had:

<head>
  <title>Bloody browsers</title>
</head>
<body>
<table>
  <tr>
    <td>Hello world!</td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Both tests had the text aligned left, so I guess that's the default.

Seeing as my boss hasn't turned up yet, I thought I'd carry on and check the
inheritance :-) I changed the <body> to this:

<table>
  <tr>
    <td align="center">
      <table>
        <tr>
          <td>Hello world!</td>
        </tr>
      </table>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

And both versions (plain <html> and XHTML stuff) still align the text to the
left.

Cheers 
Jon

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