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Asked: 2026-05-25T06:12:01+00:00

I’m sure you’ve heard it before… a div is not centering correctly in IE

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I’m sure you’ve heard it before… a div is not centering correctly in IE even though it works perfectly in Chrome and Firefox. I’ve already researched and tried stuff with text-align and auto margins but have come up empty. I also tried replacing the tags with another div or something else but did not have any positive results. Any insight anyone can offer will be appreciated.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">
.thumbnails {
    background-color:white;
    border: solid 1px #000099;
    height:120px;
    width: 640px;
    overflow-y:scroll;
    margin-bottom:20px;
    position:relative;
    padding-top: 10px;
}

#hugeimage {
    background-color:white;
    border-top: solid 1px #000099;  
    border-left: solid 1px #000099;
    border-right: solid 1px #000099;
    height:550px;
    width: 640px;
    display:table-cell; 
    vertical-align:middle;
}

#hugeimage a,
#hugeimage img {
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
    border: 0px;
}

#imageinfo {
    background-color:white;
    border-left: solid 1px #000099;
    border-right: solid 1px #000099;
    width: 640px;
}

body {
    background-color: #99ccff;
    text-color: #000099;
}

</style>
</head>
<body>
    <h3 align="center">Ship Detail</h3>
    <center>
        <div class="filedrop">
            <div id="hugeimage">
                <a href="#" target="_blank">
                    <img src="images/spin/wait30.gif" />
                </a>
            </div>
            <div id="imageinfo"></div>
            <div class="thumbnails"></div>
        </div>
    </center>
</body>
</html>

I’ve removed data from the divs. This bare-bones markup still has the hugeimage and imageinfo divs left-aligned in IE but not in chrome/ff.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Remove the <center> tags and the align="center", and add a wrapper <div id="content"> around all your content. Then add this CSS style.

    #content {
    width: 960px;
    margin: 0 auto;
}

    Example:

    <div id="content">
    <h3>Ship Detail</h3>
    <div class="filedrop">
        <div id="hugeimage">
            <a href="#" target="_blank">
                <img src="images/spin/wait30.gif" />
            </a>
        </div>
        <div id="imageinfo"></div>
        <div class="thumbnails"></div>
    </div>
</div>
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