text-align: center; not working in Firefox

April 19, 2006 · 1 min read

I have the following scenario:

.container{
  text-align: center;
  border: solid 1px blue;
}

Text

In IE (6) this displays as you would expect (with the table centered).  However with Firefox (1.5) the table is left aligned.

Apparently this is due to a bug with the way FF handles CSS.

The workaround is to use this:
  text-align: -moz-center;
instead of
  text-align: center;

Don't ask me why "-moz-center" even exists  - it's like they thought 'hey center doesnt work - lets make up our own version of it.. duh!

Oh well - at least  it works (sort of).

HTH

Tim

This article is part of the GWB Archives. Original Author: Tim Huffam

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