when my page is displayed in internet explorer it acts all wierd. the whole page goes up and to the left. ive tried everything. thx in advance
- Internet Explorer 8. works fine in firefox, opera, and safari.
- You need to provide the CSS file as well.
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Rob
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You will never get IE to attempt to perform like other far more modern browsers without a proper doctype. Add this to your first line:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
- its official...im an idiot. thank you i forgot to put that but now it works. thx again
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For others that have to deal with IE6, there is something else that needs to be addressed when centering a fixed layout.
Assuming this html snippit (assuming proper doctype, etc)
<body>
<div id="content">All your content goes here!</div>
</body>
This code makes the div with id 'content' centered on the page, except in IE6:
div#content {
width: 960px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
IE6 you need to set the body to text-align: center, then set the text-align back to left on a child element, like this:
body {
text-align: center;
}
div#content {
width: 960px;
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: left;
}
This will give you a properly centered, fixed-width layout in all the browsers, including IE6.
