Centering layout in IE, and make background image go all the way down

**Briggs** · 04-01-2008, 04:04 PM

Hey, I'm working on a new layout for my site, and I'm using a CSS based template.
But I've got two problems,

1. it looks awesome on Firefox, but it isn't centering on internet explorer, how do I fix this?

2. I'm using a background image for my different sections, but I really want them to stretch all the way down the page in stead of just stopping when there isn't any content left.

I tried looking on http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp but I didn't really see anything that helps

this is my css:
<edited>

I didn't write this myself, I modified an exciting template

**NXArmada** · 04-01-2008, 06:31 PM

Using

Code:

margin: auto;

in your body portion

Code:

body {
	float: center;
	background: #830109;
	color: #000000;
	font: normal 62.5% "Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;
	margin: auto;
}

should do the trick and lose the float: center; it is not needed.

**Briggs** · 04-01-2008, 08:48 PM

sadly that didn't work

**rangana** · 04-02-2008, 04:38 AM

Do you have a DTD on your page

Have you had something similar to this above you html tag:

Code:

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

If nothing works, together with the margin:auto;, then a live page or your code could get this easy

See if it helps

**Medyman** · 04-02-2008, 06:17 AM

to center content within the <body> tags use text-align:center.

In regards to the 100% height background, some HTML code would be helpful. It really depends on how your divs are layed out.

**Briggs** · 04-02-2008, 03:28 PM

Originally Posted by rangana

Do you have a DTD on your page

Have you had something similar to this above you html tag:

Code:

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

If nothing works, together with the margin:auto;, then a live page or your code could get this easy

See if it helps

*sighs* I don't know how I could have missed this

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