site is aligned left...should be center

[deronsizemore]

here is the address....

www.geocities.com/deronsizemore/index5.htm

I don't know why. It does it in IE 5.5. All above that it seems to be fine.

Thanks,
Deron

[The New Guy]

In the body tag put text-align: center; and in #container put text-align: left;

That should fix it.

[deronsizemore]

why text-align: left; in the body tag?

[The New Guy]

No, text-align: center; in the body tag.

[deronsizemore]

my bad...I meant #container

[The New Guy]

otherwise everything contained in #container will be text-align: center;

[yodaddy]

Just to clarify, the

text-align: left;

is so that the text within your body is not also centered in the middle of the page. Are you still confused or is this a dead discussion?

Edit: oops, The New Guy beat me...

[Paul O'B]

Deron have a look at the FAQ sticky thread on centering if you are still unsure

IE 5 and 5.5. (and ie6 in quirks mode) cdon't understand margin-left:auto and margin-right:auto and don't realise that is should centre block level elements that have a specified width.

Instead they wrongly assume that text-align:center not only centres text but nested block level elements as well. Which is why you need text-align:center on a parent such as the body in order to centre the element nested within.

Of course you then need to set the text back to text-align:left for the nested element otherwise the text will be centred as well.

Paul