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specified body CSS width is safe?

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html

css

width

Now very often content with a certain size centered.

<html>
<head>
  <style type="text/css">
    #content { margin: auto; width: 960px;}
  </style>
</head>
<body>
   <div id="content">Blah!</div>
</body>
</html>

Is it safe to not use a wrapper for alignment and size, and apply it directly to a body tag? Like this:

<html>
<head>
   <style type="text/css">
      body { margin: auto; width: 960px;}
   </style>
</head>
<body>
   Blah
</body>
</html>
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Andrew Rumm Avatar asked Feb 13 '11 20:02

Andrew Rumm


1 Answers

The size is safe, however the margin: auto-centering isn’t completely.

You have to add text-align: center to the body style to center it in IE6, too. (Yeah, I know, it totally makes no sense, but that’s hoe IE6 works)

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flying sheep Avatar answered Oct 22 '22 03:10

flying sheep