Centre Table (Horizontally & Vertically)

dj_ely · 10-19-2009, 09:38 AM

Hello All,

I've got a table within a html page that is/was aligned centrally both horizontally and vertically on any screen resolution...until recently!

in IE 8 the table is shown at the bottom of the page as opposed to the center. In other browsers it does align centrally in both Firefox, Safari, Opera etc.

Please can anyone advise how in could go about rectifying this in IE8? I've attached the page/table I'm having issues with...

Many thanks for advance for your assistance.

effpeetee · 10-19-2009, 11:13 AM

Put ALL your code into the CODE tags. You will get more results that way. Click the "#" sign in the header above in the original panel.

Thus.

Code:

*{
padding:0;
margin:0;
}

EDIT: You can edit your original post.

Frank

dj_ely · 10-19-2009, 11:24 AM

Full code below:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
<meta content="en-gb" http-equiv="Content-Language" />
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
<title>::HOME ::</title>
<style type="text/css">
.style1 {
	font-family: "Century Gothic";
	font-size: x-large;
}
.style5 {	color: #929C9E;
	font-family: "Century Gothic";
}
.style6 {	color: #183A8D;
}
.style7 {	font-family: "Century Gothic";
}
.style8 {	font-size: large;
}

* {margin:0;padding:0}
/* mac hide \*/
html,body{height:100%;width:100%;}
/* end hide */
body {

text-align:center;
min-height:490px;/* for good browsers*/
min-width:990px;/* for good browsers*/
}
#outer{
height:100%;
width:100%;
display:table;
vertical-align:middle;
}
#container {
text-align: center;
position:relative;
vertical-align:middle;
display:table-cell;
height: 490px;
}
#inner {
width: 990px;
background: #ffffff;
height: 490px;
text-align: center;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;

}

</style>

<!--[if IE ]>
<style type="text/css">
#container{top:50%}
#inner{top:-50%;position:relative;}
</style>
<![endif]-->
<meta content="***Text Re Background***" name="description" />
<meta content="***KEYWORDS*** " name="keywords" />
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0
  var i,x,a=document.MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a.length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++) x.src=x.oSrc;
}
function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
  var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
    var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++)
    if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}}
}

function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.01
  var p,i,x;  if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) {
    d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);}
  if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n];
  for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document);
  if(!x && d.getElementById) x=d.getElementById(n); return x;
}

function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0
  var i,j=0,x,a=MM_swapImage.arguments; document.MM_sr=new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.length-2);i+=3)
   if ((x=MM_findObj(a[i]))!=null){document.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];}
}
//-->
</script>
<script src="Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body onload="MM_preloadImages('site nav/practice_blue.jpg','site nav/projects_blue.jpg','site nav/news_blue.jpg','site nav/contact_blue.jpg')">
<!-- AD -->
<div id="outer">
<div id="container">
<div id="inner">
<!-- END AD -->
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 990px; height: 490px">
	<!-- MSTableType="layout" -->
	<tr>
		<td class="style1" colspan="2" valign="top"><div align="center"><img src="site nav/TITLE.jpg" width="349" height="30" /></div></td>
	  <td style="height: 30px" valign="top">
		<!-- MSCellType="empty" -->
		&nbsp;</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td style="height: 30px" valign="top">
		<!-- MSCellType="empty" -->
		<img src="site nav/home_blue.jpg" width="133" height="30" /></td>
	  <td colspan="2" rowspan="8" valign="top">
		<!-- MSCellType="empty" -->
		<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0','width','857','height','460','src','home/flash/home','quality','high','pluginspage','http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash','movie','home/flash/home' ); //end AC code
</script><noscript><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="857" height="460">
          <param name="movie" value="home/flash/home.swf" />
          <param name="quality" value="high" />
          <embed src="home/flash/home.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="857" height="460"></embed>
		  </object></noscript></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td valign="top" bordercolor="#000000" style="height: 30px">
		<!-- MSCellType="empty" -->
		<a href="practice.html" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image2','','site nav/practice_blue.jpg',1)"><img src="site nav/practice_white.jpg" name="Image2" width="133" height="30" border="0" id="Image2" /></a></td>
  </tr>
	<tr>
		<td style="height: 30px" valign="top">
		<!-- MSCellType="empty" -->
		<a href="projects.html" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image3','','site nav/projects_blue.jpg',1)"><img src="site nav/projects_white.jpg" name="Image3" width="133" height="30" border="0" id="Image3" /></a></td>
  </tr>
	<tr>
		<td style="height: 30px" valign="top">
		<!-- MSCellType="empty" -->
		<a href="news.html" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image4','','site nav/news_blue.jpg',1)"><img src="site nav/news_white.jpg" name="Image4" width="133" height="30" border="0" id="Image4" /></a></td>
  </tr>
	<tr>
		<td style="height: 30px" valign="top">
		<!-- MSCellType="empty" -->
		<a href="contact.html" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image5','','site nav/contact_blue.jpg',1)"><img src="site nav/contact_white.jpg" name="Image5" width="133" height="30" border="0" id="Image5" /></a></td>
  </tr>
	<tr>
		<td style="height: 30px" valign="top">
		<!-- MSCellType="empty" -->
		<img src="site nav/blank.jpg" width="133" height="30" /></td>
  </tr>
	<tr>
		<td style="height: 30px" valign="top">
		<!-- MSCellType="empty" -->
		<img src="site nav/blank.jpg" width="133" height="30" /></td>
  </tr>
	<tr>
		<td style="height: 250px" valign="top">
		<!-- MSCellType="empty" -->
		<img src="site nav/left_panel.jpg" width="133" height="250" /></td>
  </tr>
	<tr>
		<td style="width: 133px"></td>
		<td style="width: 216px"></td>
		<td style="height: 1px; width: 641px"></td>
	</tr>
</table>
<!-- AD -->
</div>
</div>
</div>
<!-- END AD -->
</body>

</html>

effpeetee · 10-19-2009, 11:37 AM

Thanks.

First you do have some errors to attend to.

See here. for html.

Frank

abduraooft · 10-19-2009, 11:38 AM

Quote:

I've got a table within a html page that is/was aligned centrally both horizontally and vertically on any screen resolution...until recently!

Don't use tables for making your layout, as it's a very bad practice. You should use table only for displaying tabular data.

With that said, tale a look at the dead centre approach

dj_ely · 10-19-2009, 11:48 AM

thanks Frank...

I've just had a quick look and the majority of the errors have been produced by the way in which Frontpage/Expression web has created the table and/or inserted flash content within the page...the table content displays no problem i just have an issue with it not centering on IE8.

abduraooft...
Thanks for the links...perhaps Tables aren't best practice but its done now! The link you've sent is for centering text, not quite sure how this would then apply to the table?

Cheers

abduraooft · 10-19-2009, 11:50 AM

Quote:

The link you've sent is for centering text, not quite sure how this would then apply to the table?

Aren't you seeing that red container?

effpeetee · 10-19-2009, 12:12 PM

Try this link

Also here.

Frank

abduraooft, I couldn't get your link to work.