Center Tag In Phpbb3?!

[Kokuei]

<center> is far better than div align whatnot because it's shorter and less prone to screwing up (typos).

How do you find this relervant when you can name the custom BBcode tag to whatever you like? [thisthingwillputsomeshitinthemiddle]{TEXT}[/thisthingwillputsomeshitinthemiddle] will even work. If it's an admin, setting up the BBCode wrong, and make that kinda mistake he should be demoted and limited to notepad use only.


On a more personal note, I would go with CSS since its kinda the standard for styling in phpBB3 and easy to manage.

[NNO-Stephen]

what, you've never made a typo?

[Highway of Life]

wo mee? I nevr mak tipos, I dont no abote anebode else.

When coding, it's always important to get everything perfect... as you know, a simple missed ".", "'", or ";" can cause a fatal error for the whole thing.

[Handyman]

what, you've never made a typo?

wht tipos¿... but... just setup your bbcode so users can use
[center]{TEXT}[/center]
[left]{TEXT}[/left]
[right]{TEXT}[/right]
and just use
<div style="text-align: center;">{TEXT}</div>.
<div style="text-align: left;">{TEXT}</div>.
<div style="text-align: right;">{TEXT}</div>.
Then you can be up-to-date with that XHTML stuff and your users can be happy

[Rotsblok]

users???? i have forum just for me

[Kokuei]

what, you've never made a typo?

No, I have never made a tyop (by klicking on a bbcode button). But just to be sure. Lets put every possible anagram of [center] into our custom BBCodes.

[Highway of Life]

You mean like so...

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<center><div align="center" style="text-align:center; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">{TEXT}</div></center>

Did I miss any?

[DoubleJ]

<center> is far better than div align whatnot because it's shorter and less prone to screwing up (typos).

besides, it works EVERYWHERE.

and besides, it IS valid HTML. it may have been depricated in 4.01, but it's still HTML. it's not valid XHTML 1.0 strict but *beep* it, it's HTML. so code reader, might wanna do some homework because you cannot say it was "never" valid.

If you want your site to be valid, you have to be consequent regarding this matter.
a <div style="text-align: center;">{TEXT}</div>
is better then <center> because xthml strict indeed does not allow you to add aligning elements to your html code.

[NNO-Stephen]

like I said, it's not valid XHTML 1.0

explicitly stated that. so if you want it to be valid XHTML 1.0 then yeah, don't use it.

but codereader said it was never valid HTML. that's wrong.

[code reader]

this is completely off-topic and non-relevant, but i'll give it one more try:
<some_tag align="center"> is deprecated, though valid.
<center> was never a html 4.0x (either transitional or strict) valid tag.

it was a non-standard element introduced by netscape before they supported html 3.0, and so it was incorporated into html 3.2 spec, where it was defined as a shorthand for <div align="center">.
it's true that it's still supported by all major browsers today, but, unless one has a good reason, one should not use non-standard elements. since there is no good reason (or even any reason at all) to use it, i don't think it's a good idea.
otoh, if you do decide to use it, rest assured that i will not try to prosecute you in any way.