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Text inside td elements need to be centered except for Summary and Experience. This only appears to work in Firefox/chrome. In IE8 all td text are displayed as left-justified. No matter what I try it doesn't center it. Any particular reason why this would happen?
CSS
#viewAll {
font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
width: 100%;
border-collapse: collapse;
margin-left: 10px;
table-layout: fixed;
}
#viewAll td, #viewAll th {
font-size: 1.1em;
border: 1px solid #98bf21;
word-wrap: break-word;
text-align: center;
overflow: hidden;
}
#viewAll tbody td {
padding: 2px;
}
#viewAll th {
font-size: 1.1em;
padding-top: 5px;
padding-bottom: 4px;
background-color: #A7C942;
color: #ffffff;
}
table
<?php
echo '<table id="viewAll" class="tablesorter">';
echo '<thead>';
echo '<tr align="center">';
echo '<th style="width:70px;">Product</th>';
echo '<th style="width:105px;">Prob</th>';
echo '<th style="width:105px;">I</th>';
echo '<th style="width:60px;">Status</th>';
echo '<th style="width:120px;">Experience</th>';
echo '<th style="width:200px;">Technical Summary</th>';
echo '<th style="width:80px;">Record Created</th>';
echo '<th style="width:80px;">Record Updated</th>';
echo '<th style="width:50px;">Open</th>';
echo '</tr>';
echo '</thead>';
echo '<tbody>';
while ($data=mysqli_fetch_array($result)){
#limiting the summary text displayed in the table
$limited_summary = (strlen($data['summary']) > 300) ? substr(($data['summary']),0,300) . '...' : $data['summary'];
$limited_exp = (strlen($data['exp']) > 300) ? substr(($data['exp']),0,300) . '...' : $data['exp'];
echo '<tr align="center">
<td style="width:70px; text-align:center;">'.$data['product'].'</td>';
//if value is '-' do not display as link
if ($data['prob'] != '-'){
echo '<td style="width:105px;">'.$data['prob'].'</a></td>';
}
else{
echo '<td style="width:105px; ">'.$data['prob'].'</td>';
}
if ($data['i'] != '-'){
echo '<td style="width:105px; ">'.$data['i'].'</a></td>';
}
else{
echo '<td style="width:105px; ">'.$data['i'].'</td>';
}
echo'<td style="width:40px; " >'.$data['status'].'</td>
<td style="width:120px; text-align:left;">'.$limited_cust_exp.'</td>
<td style="width:200px; text-align:left;">'.$limited_summary.'</td>
<td style="width:80px; ">'.$data['created'].'</td>
<td style="width:80px; ">'.$data['updated'].'</td>';
if (isset($_SESSION['username'])){
echo '<td style="width:50px; "> <form action="displayRecord.php" method="get">'.'
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="'. $data['id'].'" style="text-decoration: none" /><input type="submit" value="Open" /></form></td>';
}else{
echo '<td style="width:50px; "> <form action="displayRecord.php" method="get">'.'
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="'. $data['id'].'" style="text-decoration: none" /><input type="submit" value="View" /></form></td>';
}
echo '</tr>';
}#end of while
echo '</tbody>';
echo '</table>';
?>
EDIT 1: I just tried the exact same code via xampp and it centers it in IE. Any idea why it would work via XAMPP on my local machine but not via the server? (getting quite confused by this now)
EDIT 2: jsfiddle
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Short answer: your text isn't centered because the elements are floated, and floated elements "shrink" to the content, even if it's a block level element.
This is because text-align:center only affects inline elements, and <aside> is not an inline element by default. It is a block-level element. To align it, we will have to use something other than text-align , or turn it into an inline element.
The <center> tag has basic support with the following browsers: Chrome.
To just center the text inside an element, use text-align: center; This text is centered.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
Add this line of code at the top, it will work.
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