74462 - css body text-align attribute isn't honored

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 49274

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Andrew Gaul]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19 i686; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010326
BuildID:    2001032614

<style> body { text-align: center; } </style> doesn't center the page's body. 
Internet Explorer 5.5 centers body.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.none

workaround: enclose all content in a table with text-align: center

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

It centers all the inline children of body.  It (correctly) does not center the
block chilren.  Try:

body {text-align: center}
body > * { padding-left: auto; padding-right: auto }

instead.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 49274 ***

Comment 2

[Wesha]

v.