Internet Explorer instability

[dburdon]

I've come across a problem whereby IE is unable to accurately decode the <Center> command. When viewing a table in IE it defaults to the left hand margin. There's no such problem with Firefox.

I've found a solution but its quite cumbersome.Anybody else have a solution?

[kgun]

Floating standards. You still drive on the left side?

I am studying a related subject, HTML forms and XForms. There is a lot of resources, first 4 chapters of books that you can download from the sitepoint bookstore e.g. The CSS Anthology.

So why aren't we seeing XForms springing up all over the Web? After all, the most popular Web browser in the world now supports them with a free plug-in!

Due to the stagnation of Internet Explorer, all the ultra-keen Web developers who would normally jump on a technology like this have moved to Mozilla (and Firefox) as their development platform of choice. To put it bluntly, no one really cares what Internet Explorer can do now, because there is so much that it can't do (like properly support CSS2).
http://www.sitepoint.com/newsletter/...d=3&issue=83#4

Then back to your question about the <center></center> tag. How confusing. Sometimes it centers the text / picture and sometimes not. May be I have not taken the time to study the tag in detail. If you make the following search on Google:

KW:<center> tag site:www.w3.org

This is the two first hits:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/graphics.html

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tables.html

So you see there is an itimate relation between the <center> tag, alignment fonts and tables.

Very often I end up using a little table (because I am in a hurry) instead of taking the time to use CSS or XForms etc.

Example:
<table width="100%" border="0">
<tr>
<td width="20%"></td>
<td width="60%"></td> Your object here if you want it centered.
<td width="20%"></td>
</tr>
</table>

but I do not like the solution. Perhaps you should study CSS or XForms solutions in greater detail?

Related links if you are interested in XForms:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xforms/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/...3Sep/0017.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/

Tell me if you find a good explanation of the <center> tag. You talked about the <Center> command?

You find this explanation of The <center> tag at my favourite web developement site

Deprecated
A deprecated element or attribute is one that has been outdated.

Differences Between HTML and XHTML
The center element was deprecated in HTML 4.01.

The center element is not supported in XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD.

Deprecated elements may become obsolete in the future, but browsers should continue to support deprecated elements for backward compatibility.

KW:<center> site:www.w3schools.com