On Apr 15, 2004, at 09:06, Gabriel Wicke wrote:

div again, we don't really know what will be inside the center tags. Could be another div for example, or a table.

In my experience, <div style="text-align:center"> and <center> don't do the same thing. Mozilla's standard stylesheet uses a custom -moz-center setting to achieve the <center> rendering.

Demonstration: http://leuksman.com/misc/div-center.html

The <div> inside the <center> block is centered in its parent's content area, but the <div> inside the <div style="text-align:center"> block actually shows up left aligned (though the text inside it is centered). Mozilla's default stylesheet uses a custom "text-align: -moz-center" to achieve <center> rendering, which makes me think there's just no good way to emulate it completely with CSS2.

Anyway, while <center> is forbidden in XHTML 1.0 Strict, it's *not* forbidden by XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Might be better to leave the <center>s as they are for now.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)