A method of coating a metal strip using a coating material which is still liquid to begin with, wherein the method comprises the following steps: guiding the material strip to be coated through a coating container which is filled with the liquid coating material; blowing off surplus parts of the coating material while it is still liquid from the surface of the metal strip after it has run through the coating container with the help of a blow-off device; stabilizing the metal strip after it leaves the blow-off device with the help of an electromagnetic stabilization device downstream of the blow-off device in the transport direction of the metal strip, which stabilization device is supported by the blow-off device; displacing the electromagnetic stabilization device relative to the blow-off device in a plane transverse to the transport direction of the metal strip, in such a manner that the current position of the metal strip coincides at least approximately with a predefined desired central position in the slot in the electromagnetic stabilization device and regulating the actual position of the metal strip in respect of the predefined desired central position through suitable displacement of the blow-off device in a plane transverse to the transport direction of the metal strip, characterized in that a deviation of the actual position of the metal strip from a predefined desired central position in the slot of the blow-off device is detected; the displacement of the blow-off device in respect of a pass line reference position is detected directly or indirectly and the displacement of the electromagnetic stabilization device takes place in accordance with and in the opposite direction to the detected displacement of the blow-off device, in such a manner that as a result the electromagnetic stabilization device remains at in its original location. guiding the material strip to be coated through a coating container which is filled with the liquid coating material; blowing off surplus parts of the coating material while it is still liquid from the surface of the metal strip after it has run through the coating container with the help of a blow-off device; stabilizing the metal strip after it leaves the blow-off device with the help of an electromagnetic stabilization device downstream of the blow-off device in the transport direction of the metal strip, which stabilization device is supported by the blow-off device; displacing the electromagnetic stabilization device relative to the blow-off device in a plane transverse to the transport direction of the metal strip, in such a manner that the current position of the metal strip coincides at least approximately with a predefined desired central position in the slot in the electromagnetic stabilization device and regulating the actual position of the metal strip in respect of the predefined desired central position through suitable displacement of the blow-off device in a plane transverse to the transport direction of the metal strip, characterized in that a deviation of the actual position of the metal strip from a predefined desired central position in the slot of the blow-off device is detected; the displacement of the blow-off device in respect of a pass line reference position is detected directly or indirectly and the displacement of the electromagnetic stabilization device takes place in accordance with and in the opposite direction to the detected displacement of the blow-off device, in such a manner that as a result the electromagnetic stabilization device remains at in its original location.