This would be the wrong way to center anything on the page, really.
The best way would be to use CSS -
<div style="width:700px;margin:0 auto;">
<table style="width:700px

adding:0;border:collapse;" cellspacing="0">
(inline shown for clarity)
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"ukracer" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Can anybody advise me how to make the body tag centre the page in IE8? The
> attached code works fine in IE7 and Firefox but displays left aligned in
> IE8!
>
>
> Many thanks for any assistance that can be offered
>
> <div align="center">
> <table width="700" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
>