Centering Divs in Netscape, Mozilla, etc

[PixelFool]

Hello all -

I'm having a LOT of trouble trying to center a container div in Netscape and Mozilla. Of course it works fine in IE if I use
body {text-align: center; }. However, I've tried more than one thing on Netscape and Mozilla (margin-left: auto, margin-right:auto, aligning the div, putting it IN another aligned container div).. nothing seems to work.
I know that Netscape has a lot of trouble with divs that contain other divs but no actual content.. and I'm not sure why.
Is that my problem?
Is there a hack I'm supposed to use?

The actual page is located at www.pixellatedfool.com/problems/main2.html
and the CSS file is located at www.pixellatedfool.com/problems/agony_style2.css

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Iris*

[Aleister]

Try getting rid of "align: center" in the container.

I always use 2 things and it works for me. The text-align center in the body, and the margin-left: auto, and margin-right: auto in the container.

I always have an outer container when I use a centered layout.. never any netscape problems yet, unless you are talking about netscape 4.. and if thats the case most of your css won't work anyway and you can use an alternate css file for older browsers.

[Aleister]

Actually there is another method I use too, which works even better for me. Do not use text-align: in the body. and do not use align: in the container. Just do this in your container:

position: relative;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;

And make sure to define a width of course. This is what I use on my main domain (www.templeofdagon.com). It works in IE6, Netscape 7, Opera, Firefox, Mozilla variants, Safari, IE5 Mac, and various linux browsers I have tested in.

[PixelFool]

Haha I'm so sure that I did that already! But you're right, it worked just fine, even in IE I believe.
I actually also fixed the sub-problem I was having with certain divs not showing up in the other browsers (I guess you really need to specify exact widths etc.).

Thanks a ton Aleister! Nice lizard.

**EDIT**

You must've been posting while I was replying ^_^ I'll definitely try that second one as well, might be more solid. Thanks , you rock ^_^

[Aleister]

No problem Glad it worked.

(Did you see my second method too? I probably posted it the same time as your response so you may of overlooked it

[Aleister]

Lol.. yes we both seem to keep posting at the same time!