[WEB4LIB] Help, please! IE oddity

Dan Lester dan at riverofdata.com
Thu Feb 1 16:38:06 EST 2001


The problem is that some cells, the "good ones" that are the way you want
them, use:  td align="center"   and the "bad ones" use align="center"
in reference to the text block.

The former center within the cell, the latter just center the text
around itself, but the cell is still set to left justify, which it
does with the block in question.  Change the centering in cell
properties and it should be fine.

dan


Thursday, February 01, 2001, 6:58:53 AM, you wrote:

JS> I just discovered that some of the tables on my government documents pages look very strange in Internet Explorer.  Specifically, while the text is centered with respect to itself, it is all
JS> squished over to the left side of the cell.  I use FrontPage, and my first thought was "what has FP done to it now?" but I've looked at the html and it looks fine.  The tables look fine in FP,
JS> and they look fine in Netscape.  Here's two pages where the effect is noticeable:

JS> http://www.elmira.edu/library/govdocs/guides.html#topics
JS> (there are two tables here: top table has the problem, bottom table doesn't)

JS> http://www.elmira.edu/library/govdocs/govdocs.html

JS> I seem to be using IE 5.0 (I thought I had 5.5 but it looks like the IT dept. installed 5.0 instead when I got my new computer this fall -- grr.)


JS> ---Julia E. Schult
JS> Access/Electronic Services Librarian
JS> Elmira College
JS> Jschult at elmira.edu



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