weird situation i need clearing up

**Tezler** · Dec 28, 2003 17:57

hi guys im in a weird situation and dont have a clue why one works and the other dont.

Firstly here is the first with declaration

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<table width="100%" height="100%"  border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td align="center" valign="middle">this should be in CENTRE of screen</td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

RIGHT NOTICING THAT IT DONT CENTER THE TEXT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCREEN.

here is the second link now with the declaration taken out without declaration

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<table width="100%" height="100%"  border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td align="center" valign="middle">this should be in CENTRE of screen</td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

this works and centers the text, why is this happening? whats with the declartion? please somebody clear this up for me.

Thanks ever so much

**Wavelan** · Dec 28, 2003 18:08

That is because the height attribute is not valid HTML 4.01, and when you use the declaration browsers don't interpret the invalid attribute.

**ahmed momtaz** · Dec 28, 2003 18:12

[QUOTE=abcdef]hi guys im in a weird situation and dont have a clue why one works and the other dont.

Firstly here is the first with declaration

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<table width="100%" height="100%"  border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td align="center" valign="middle">this should be in CENTRE of screen</td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

check this[CENTER]

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset="windows-1256">
</head>

<body>
<table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="middle">this should be in CENTRE of screen</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

</body>
</html>

**Tezler** · Dec 28, 2003 18:19

so just changing the char set sorted the height attribute ? this right ?

**Tezler** · Dec 28, 2003 18:22

Well regarding all this then? the idea is i want something centering in the browser window! which will work across browsers.
What is the best way to center something? is it the code above posted by "ahmed" ?

**Zoef** · Dec 28, 2003 18:48

Check out this thread: http://www.sitepointforums.com/showt...threadid=91622

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