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CSS / IE — Quirks Mode Reminder (CSS Centering)

I often forget that IE resorts to “Quirks Mode” if you don’t include the proper DTD line (as the first line in your HTML file), so this is mostly a reminder to myself.  Include the following line and save yourself some debug time!

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd”>

Once you include this, you can resort to the CSS centering technique of fixed-width and ‘auto’ margins:

***** CSS ******
.myDiv
{
  width: 400px;
  margin: auto;
}

I would post the html here, but I can’t figure out how to make Tumblr let me include the necessary html tags in text (without stripping them from the magical post editor)


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