Posting screen centered in IE8?

Unsure where the cause is, but the symptom is this:The screen where you compose your post has the response area centered. The first colum that lists the "Subject," "Message Mood," "Message," and "Options" labels is centered. Similarly, the second column that has the fields you fill in for those labels are centered. However, the "Lengthen," "Widen," and "Restore" buttons are still left-aligned whereas the actual text box where you type has been centered in the column.Running IE8 on Vista.This is not happening under Chrome.

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Rrhain

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Minds are like parachutes. Just because you've lost yours doesn't mean you can use mine.

My question is why in the world would Rural Rental Housing Association if Indiana (or Rrhain) use a piece of crap like vista in the first place?But I agree. I notice the same "problem", too.

Mine has been doing that since about Thursday, and I don't have IE8.I figured it was just Percy playing around with stuff again.

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I see no problem and promise not to do it again. Seriously, thanks for finding this.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

I would say, probably the same reason I use it, it came on this PC.

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Taz responds to me:

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My question is why in the world would Rural Rental Housing Association if Indiana (or Rrhain) use a piece of crap like vista in the first place?

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Because I will never use that piece of crap known as a "Mac." Linux has its place, but I like to be able to run software that actually exists.And with Vista improving on XP and 7 finally fixing the problem Windows has had since 95 (what? You mean you want to rearrange the buttons in the Taskbar without relaunching your programs?) there's even more to prefer.But all that's off-topic. It seems that whatever was causing the unusual centering in IE8 has been fixed.Thank you, Percy.

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Rrhain

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Thank you for your submission to Science. Your paper was reviewed by a jury of seventh graders so that they could look for balance and to allow them to make up their own minds. We are sorry to say that they found your paper "bogus," specifically describing the section on the laboratory work "boring." We regret that we will be unable to publish your work at this time.

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Minds are like parachutes. Just because you've lost yours doesn't mean you can use mine.

It's centered in IE 6 now as well. Was this way a couple days ago when Rrhain noticed it, then was fixed, and now is centered again.

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I hunt for the truthI am the one Orgasmatron, the outstretched grasping hand
My image is of agony, my servants rape the land
Obsequious and arrogant, clandestine and vain
Two thousand years of misery, of torture in my name
Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law
My name is called religion, sadistic, sacred whore.
-Lyrics by Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead

Internet Explorer right up through the latest version has a bug affecting text alignment in table cells. The default is left-justified, but if the table is inside <center> tags then the text inside the table gets centered, too. The bug is only apparent with certain DOCTYPE's, and apparently Strict is one of them, which I just switched to. I was using Transitional before, but Internet Explorer has a different formatting bug with that DOCTYPE.I've added a CSS style to force left-justification as the default for all table cells. Click refresh/reload to load the updated CSS file.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

Yep, it's normal again. Thanks. Stupid IE, that's why I don't use it at home

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I hunt for the truthI am the one Orgasmatron, the outstretched grasping hand
My image is of agony, my servants rape the land
Obsequious and arrogant, clandestine and vain
Two thousand years of misery, of torture in my name
Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law
My name is called religion, sadistic, sacred whore.
-Lyrics by Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead

Same problem, would be my guess: The Search screen has all the stuff centered. The DB Codes help screen, too.I went looking for other screens that might have the problem and I found that most of the links in the "Site Map" screen don't work:Home works.
Smilies Legend goes to a page, but the page itself is broken.
HTML Quick Ref works.None of the other links work.

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Rrhain

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Thank you for your submission to Science. Your paper was reviewed by a jury of seventh graders so that they could look for balance and to allow them to make up their own minds. We are sorry to say that they found your paper "bogus," specifically describing the section on the laboratory work "boring." We regret that we will be unable to publish your work at this time.

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Minds are like parachutes. Just because you've lost yours doesn't mean you can use mine.

Search should be fixed. Thanks for taking the time to check out other pages. I really appreciate this kind of help.I gave up maintaining the site map a long time ago. There was an offer to update it one point, but nothing ever came of it.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

The login screen also has this.

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I hunt for the truthI am the one Orgasmatron, the outstretched grasping hand
My image is of agony, my servants rape the land
Obsequious and arrogant, clandestine and vain
Two thousand years of misery, of torture in my name
Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law
My name is called religion, sadistic, sacred whore.
-Lyrics by Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead