Why will this div/img not center in IE8?
I have a very simple holding page I built centering a div, anchor and image. For some reason it will not center in IE8 (either mode), and I am hoping someone can tell me why. I haven't had a chance to try it in other IE browsers. I have tried this in Chrome and FF3 where it works OK.
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome</title>
<style>
#pageContainer {width:300px;margin:0 auto;text-align:center;}
#toLogo{border:none; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="pageContainer">
<a href="http://portal.thesit.com" id="toSite"><img src="LOGO_DNNsmall.png" id="toLogo"></a>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I said it was really simple. :)
Thank you,
Brett
Answer
Do you really want your page to work in quirks mode? Your HTML centers fine once I added doctype to to force standards mode:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>Welcome</title>
<style>
#pageContainer {width:300px;margin:0 auto;text-align:center;}
#toLogo{border:none; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="pageContainer">
<a href="http://portal.thesit.com" id="toSite">
<img src="http://stackoverflow.com/content/img/so/logo.png" id="toLogo"></a> </div>
</body>
</html>