Centering a table with CSS

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April 1st, 2004, 02:53 PM

Jerriko

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Centering a table with CSS

I'm trying to center a table with CSS, because apparently putting align="center" in the table tag doesn't validate as HTML Strict.

I've tried

table.center
{
position: fixed;
left: 50%;
}

but that makes the table go off of the page. I've tried all the options given on w3schools.com with their positioning lessons, but none of them work.

Any suggestions?

April 1st, 2004, 03:00 PM

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Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="EN" />
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
    <meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />
    <meta name="Author" content="Jamie Burns" />
    <meta name="Description" content="" />
    <meta name="Keywords" content="" />	
<title></title>
<style type="text/css" title="centering">
html, body {
	margin-left: auto;
	margin-right: auto;
	}
#centeredtable {
	margin-left: auto;
	margin-right: auto;
}
</style>	
</head>
<body>
	<table id="centeredtable" style="border: 1px groove #000">
		<tr>
			<td>This is a test</td>
		</tr>	
	</table>		  													
</body>
</html>

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April 1st, 2004, 03:08 PM

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Thanks a lot, it worked.

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