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Question

Answer 1

+6 A:

Your HTML snippet does not have a DOCTYPE, so IE is defaulting to quirksmode.

Using the HTML5 doctype:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
  <div id="container" style="margin:0 auto; width:200px;">
       test
  </div>
</body>
</html>

ajm 2010-06-08 15:17:03

that was it..thanks!

hhj 2010-06-08 16:19:37

Answer 2

+1 A:

another method would be to do this in your css, this way it works no matter if ie is in quirksmode or not:

body{text-align:center;}
#container{text-align: left;}

AraLA22 2010-06-09 02:18:10

Why doesn't this html/css work in ie?