is centers the container in IE 5* browsers. The text is then set to the left aligned default in the #container selector */ color: #000000; } .oneColFixCtrHdr #container { width: 627px; /* using 20px less than a full 800px width allows for browser chrome and avoids a horizontal scroll bar */ background: #FFFFFF; margin: 0 auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */ border: 0px solid #000000; text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */ vertical-align: top; margin-bottom: 10px; } .oneColFixCtrHdr #header { background: #DDDDDD; padding: 0 0px 0 0px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear beneath it. If an image is used in the #header instead of text, you may want to remove the padding. */ } .oneColFixCtrHdr #header h1 { margin: 0; /* zeroing the margin of the last element in the #header div will avoid margin collapse - an unexplainable space between divs. If the div has a border around it, this is not necessary as that also avoids the margin collapse */ padding: 5px 0; /* using padding instead of margin will allow you to keep the element away from the edges of the div */ } .oneColFixCtrHdr #mainContent { padding: 0 6px 12px 6px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */ background: #FFFFFF; vertical-align: top; } .oneColFixCtrHdr #footer { padding: 0 10px; /* this padding matches the left alignment of the elements in the divs that appear above it. */ background:#DDDDDD; } .oneColFixCtrHdr #footer p { margin: 0; /* zeroing the margins of the first element in the footer will avoid the possibility of margin collapse - a space between divs */ padding: 10px 0; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */ } .bodycopy { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; line-height: 16px; color: #000; } .fineprint { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 5px; } .maintable { border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #000; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 10px; } -->