[Express] site rendered on ie 5.5 not centered?

Hello all,

I was trying the various IE versions on this great rendering site (Moved) just to see how my revised site will look. My site looks fine on all except IE 5.5, where everything is thrown over to the left, not center.

any thoughts? -Ramsay

http://www.ramsaydaly.com


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That browser requires a bit of CSS hoop-jumping in the form of adding
a specific IE 5.5 stylesheet to correct the centering issue via a
conditional comment. It’s not difficult to do but instead of going
through the trouble I would suggest not worrying about it. That
browser is no longer relevant and with IE6 slowly becoming less of an
issue there’s really no point in sweating 5.5. Just my opinion.

Todd

On May 28, 2009, at 5:33 PM, overmedium wrote:

My site looks fine on all except IE 5.5, where everything is thrown
over to the left, not center.


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Ok, thanks for your opinion, and I will run with it: I won’t sweat it!

cheers, Ramsay


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Anyone still using IE 5.5 is probably used to this sort of behaviour and wont know any better.

My 2c

David


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Sometime around 28/5/09 (at 18:59 -0400) overmedium said:

Ok, thanks for your opinion, and I will run with it: I won’t sweat it!

Yep. The very tiny handful of people still using that browser will be
fully aware that sites don’t work properly in it. Lack of centering
is the least of the problems they’ll see as they look around online.

(I wonder if any of 'em wonders what all this web hype is and thinks
the web is actually broken? :slight_smile:

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I’m waiting to be able to think like this about IE6.

(I wonder if any of 'em wonders what all this web hype is and thinks
the web is actually broken? :slight_smile:

k


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If you want to try to fix this, you can add the following CSS to your page, using the Page > HTML Markup dialog, choosing the Before /HEAD segment in the picker.

<style type="text/css">
    body { text-align: center; }
    #PageDiv, #PageDiv * { text-align: left; }
</style>

This will probably fix the problem, although you may find some cases where text alignment is broken further in to your layout.

Walter


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