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I’m unsure whether this is what you are talking about, but bluehost recently went through an extensive change in security structure, requiring everyone to create new passwords (including for ftp access).

I just
(1) downloaded style.css via FTP,
(2) took out

.entry img
{
  margin:5px;
}

(3) replaced it with

.entry img.aligncenter {
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
}

(4) deleted the old style.css file on my server, and
(5) replaced it via FTP with the edited style.css.

The images now center in both IE and FF.

But I would never have known what to do or how to do it without your patience and gracious help. For which thanks, esmi, t31os_, and RVoodoo.

I am trying to learn this stuff for myself (at some online sites), but it is all very deep (I’m better at HTML than CSS), so I greatly appreciate your help here today. It was a real eye-opener.

Thanks.

Sorry; double post.

Follow up:

Presumably I could download it via FTP, edit it, save it, then upload it back into the theme CSS folder at my host. Is that correct?

Or is there an easier way, directly from the WP Dashboard?

Thanks.

T31os_ and RVoodoo:

Thanks so much to both of you.

Please excuse me, but perhaps this is part of the learning curve.
If I may regress a moment:

The only style-css editor I have ever used or even known about is the one accessible on my WP Edit Themes screen. I did not know this one (a notepad file?) existed.

I thought only the one accessible through WP Edit Themes could be edited.

I just deleted the code T31os_ posted above, then saved the changed notepad file, but when I looked at it again, the code was still there, presumably because I was saving it only to a temp location?

How do I delete that coding (T31os_, I assume you meant the entire code, not just “5px” or something like that?) and save correctly?

I appreciate your patience. This file is completely new to me. I think I’m almost there.

Thanks RVoodoo.

There is no Entradas do Usu??rio at the bottom of my style.css.

Everything that is on my style.css is posted above (except for the theme author’s copyright etc. (in /* etc.) at the top of the style.css.

I must be missing something very obvious, but I do not have that code
anywhere on that page. Is this a problem with my theme (Painter)?

I’m very confused now.

Could you highlight in my style.css above exactly what it is I am supposed to delete?
Many thanks.

I do not see that code in my style.css sheet.

The only coding I see is what I posted above. Where is that coding?

Thank you, esmi.

The image still centers in IE but not if FF.

I emptied my browser cache, deleted my history (“Everything”) in FF, also pressed CTRL and F5 simultaneously, and the image is still not centered in FF.

Are you viewing it in FF?
Did I enter the code in the correct place?

Thank you, esmi, on both points.

Adding that code to the bottom of style.css unfortunately did not work.

My style.css contains the following:

.aligncenter {
  display:block;
  margin:auto;
}

.alignleft {
  float:left;
}

.alignright {
  float:right;
}

.entry img.aligncenter {
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
}

The code you suggested is last.
I also tried it deleting the first code about “align center” etc., but that did not work either, so I put it back in.

Any suggestions?
I do appreciate the help.

Thanks, esmi, I will do so now.

I am having the same problem with images centering in IE but not in Firefox, so I have not yet started the topic yet again.

But I am not using an independent HTML editor (like Tiny MCE), but rather WP’s own.

I’ve found so many different suggestions for solutions tha I am quite confused now.

My code for one of the offending images is:

<p style="text-align:center"><img class="size-full wp-image-1033 aligncenter" src="https://www.carolineschelling.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Caroline-Briefe.bmp" alt="Caroline Briefe" /></p>

on this page

http//www.carolineschelling.com/index-of-letters

My WP-generated centering coding

<p style="text-align:center">

is the same as esmi’s suggestion above but different from cableghost’s
<p align=center>

which I tried but still does not center the image in Firefox.

A search turned up the following explanation:

“To centre a block you are supposed to set margin-left and margin-right to auto, but IE doesn’t honour this, so you have to use
text-align:center to make IE happy, plus margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto for the standards compliant browsers.”

Is that what cableghost was talking about when he said

The built-in WP editor’s version of center was/is the problem.

?

In any event, I still have no solution. I would prefer a global solution (on my theme’s CSS Style Sheet? I’m using the Painter theme). Is a global solution possible?

But where and how would one enter such code, e.g.,

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

Thank you.

Follow up:

All three of my problems have been resolved by changing to Firefox to access my admin panel in WP.

Sergey says he disabled the Javascript link for Internet Explorer because of problems IE has with Javascript for thumbnail editing.

I was using IE 7++ and had the issues listed above. Those issues disappear in Firefox.

He does, however, say that those issues do not exist in IE 8. I’m unsure because I do not have IE 8.
Am I recounting that correctly?

No problems before the upgrade (using WP 2.9.2).
The Flash Album Gallery plugin is clearly broken / buggy in 0.42.

Among other things I have experienced:

(1) If you have more than one page of images, after page 1 the blue SAVE CHANGES button (normally on the right) disappears below the SORT GALLERY and ADD IMAGES buttons (only a sliver of blue is visible).

(2) The EDIT THUMB button has disappeared entirely, being replaced by a new META button; i.e., you can no longer edit thumbnails.

(3) A 4-5 line text script runs in the flash screen before a gallery loads.

I am only running four other plugins; I deactivated them all and still got the bugs. It’s not a plugin conflict.