237201 - text-align of a DIV doesn't align also a contained DIV

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 22816

(Core :: Layout: Block and Inline, defect)

Description

[Lapo Luchini]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040219
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040219

In a "DIV in a DIV" structure, the inner DIV is placed in the wrong place.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Take a look at the attached page.
Actual Results:  
The page is not rendered correctly.

Expected Results:  
The page is rendered correctly.

Comment 1

[Lapo Luchini]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

text-align aligns text.  It does not affect block layout.

Comment 3

[Lapo Luchini]

http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-CSS21-20040225/text.html#propdef-text-align
Maybe I got it completely wrong, but doesn't the documentation say "Applies to
any block-level elements"?
Else, how to center a block?

Comment 4

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;

Comment 5

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22816 ***

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

"applies" just means that you can apply the property to any block and that it
will center the text inside that block.