Adam - I am using the transitional Doctype in this case. Your code snippet left out the left and right property values which caused the p tag to "float" outside and over to the right in IE6 & 7, even with the width set to 100% - but as soon as those two values were added, everything fell into place in both IE and all remained well in the other browsers.
As an aside - why am I not receiving all email discussions? I missed Adam's post and am only seeing now in Bill's response. --- On Wed, 7/9/08, Bill Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Bill Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [css-d] Centering Element W Absolute Positioning? > To: "Adam Ducker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "CSS Discuss" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 4:54 PM > Adam Ducker wrote: > > Ellie, > > > > I'm interested to know what doctype are you using > (if any). The method > > I outlined works fine for me in all browsers on XHTML > transitional but > > my knowledge of any quirks with regular HTML has > softened over the last > > few years. > > > > It seems like "left: 0;" and "right: > 0;" in conjunction would be > > superfluous. > > > > -Adam Ducker > > Adam, > > For absolutely positioned elements left:0;right:0 is > essentially the > same thing as width:100%...except that IE6 won't > recognize it as such, > honoring /only/ the right /or/ the left setting. Under > normal > circumstances, width:100% will give you the effect you > want...unless > you're using borders, margins, or padding, in which > case of course, the > width of your box becomes > width:100%+borders+margin+padding. > > In Ellie's case, width:100% would have probably done > the trick. > > Hope it helps. > Bill > > > > -- > /** > * Bill Brown > * TheHolierGrail.com & MacNimble.com > * From dot concept...to dot com...since 1999. > ***********************************************/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
