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I can't get my text to align justified in a paragraph box of fixed width using the property text-align:justified;.

Can you give a link to an uploaded version?

In firefox in the tools / error console look for stylesheet1280.css at site address

http://www.arithmetic.890m.com

It's a typo. The property you want is "justify", but what you've typed is "justified".

fantastic

All done now, until I want something else, all I have left to do is put in some content.

The page 'Cascading Sheets Level 2' is exactly what I wanted; CSS at about degree level. Talking about degree level I've been looking at an old textbook and he does things differently to the way I planned to proceed. But I still intend to try and do things as planned. It'll just be different.

Opera is even better than firefox, showing ny link to actually work as intended.

Remember to use Firebug in Firefox for testing and debugging. it's invaluable since it has a css editor.

Thankyou, I achieved the impossible today and nearly started to understand CSS. I actually managed to declare a table as a child of a div, aha but children are not like descendants in C++, they do not acquire all the properties of this sort of foster parent, these properties are fixed by ancestors higher up the document tree unless altered in a declaration block for the child.

But the child is treated like a child of divs in the document when it is in divs own space.

W3C cannot validate my CSS because its got
the string opacity=50 in it, does that mean IE is dead?
Well it's getting on my nerves anyway

I don't know where you're using that, but it would more likely be either opacity:50; or opacity="50" depending on the context.

This is from W3schools.com/css/css_image_transparency.asp

div.transbox
{
width: 400px;
height: 180px;
margin: 30px 50px;
background-color: #ffffff;
border: 1px solid black;
filter:alpha(opacity=60);
opacity:0.6;
}

and works on the site and in my IE
but doesn't parse for W3C validation.

forgot my complete string is filter:alpha(opacity=50) in braces

Ahhh, my badge disapeared from view in internet explorer, I've had to
go back to Opera.

I suspect the reason it doesn't pass W3C validation is because "filter:" is an IE-specific extension to CSS, not part of the W3C standard. If it works in any browser other than IE that's a sign of tolerance on that browser's part, not standards compliance.

I think microsoft choose to ignore the rules because they
think they are the standard and rule the world. My favorite browser
is now Opera, because everything works right.

I think I will go about making some transparent images instead,
and stick microsofts filter where the sun don't shine.

If you use PNG transparency you'll need to add some workarounds to make it work in IE. But at least then it will work in pretty much everything.

http://24ways.org/2007/supersleight-transparent-png-in-ie6

> I think microsoft choose to ignore the rules because they
> think they are the standard and rule the world.

Quite true, until now, apparently. IE8 is supposed to have its "Super Standards" mode on by default (read: following the herd... several years after the herd moved on).

I just gave up trying to get things to work in IE (6 or 7). If it doesn't work in IE, then switch to a better browser, dammit. *gets all worked up*

Mind you, I tried the IE8 beta and it couldn't render *anything* properly. Not. Even. Google. Dammit.

Opera's a great browser (and highly standards-compliant), but I prefer Firefox (version 3 is supposed to be highly standards-compliant, too, and I've had no troubles with it thus far).

Opera 10 Alpha(?) is allegedly the first browser *ever* to score 100% on the "Acid3" test. But I'm sure Firefox will too by the time it's released. (Currently somewhere around 81%, I think...)