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Vertically centering tables Daniel Kaplan 09-19-2005
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Posted by Daniel Kaplan on September 19, 2005, 5:21 pm
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Hi All,

Am trying to vertically center a table, and failing miserably at it.

Have tried everything with this:

<table border=1 width=100% valign=MIDDLE>

taking out width, etc. I just can't get the table to be centered.

Can anyone give me a clue?

Thanks ahead, as always.

Daniel





Posted by Rincewind on September 19, 2005, 11:04 pm
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On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:21:45 -0400, Daniel Kaplan wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Am trying to vertically center a table, and failing miserably at it.
>
> Have tried everything with this:
>
> <table border=1 width=100% valign=MIDDLE>
>
> taking out width, etc. I just can't get the table to be centered.
>
> Can anyone give me a clue?
>
> Thanks ahead, as always.
>
> Daniel

<table border="1px" width="100%" valign="center">

Posted by Lauri Raittila on September 20, 2005, 1:18 am
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in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, Rincewind wrote:

> > <table border=1 width=100% valign=MIDDLE>

> <table border="1px" width="100%" valign="center">

You added two irrelevant errors, and added nothing. Why do you think it
makes any difference?

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Posted by Tom Potts on September 20, 2005, 12:25 am
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<table width="100%" height="100%">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="middle">
<table>
<tr><th>header1</th><th>header2</th></tr>
<tr><td>data1</td><td>data2</td></tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>


Posted by Lauri Raittila on September 20, 2005, 1:07 am
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in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, Daniel Kaplan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Am trying to vertically center a table, and failing miserably at it.

I don't wonder. Why and in what? There is some CSS to do that in some
cases:
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~laurirai/www/css/middle/

If you want to center whole page in IE, use HTML. It is bad idea, and not
only because of nested tables.

> Have tried everything with this:

I assume you ahve not searched the web nor read the spec? (latter would
not help though, as it is not possible by HTML spec.)

> <table border=1 width=100% valign=MIDDLE>
>
> taking out width, etc. I just can't get the table to be centered.
>
> Can anyone give me a clue?

There is no HTML that can be used to center a table vertically. All it
allows is to center contents of table cell (you don't need to do
anything to get that)



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Lauri Raittila <http://www.iki.fi/lr> <http://www.iki.fi/zwak/fonts>

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