center three divs side by side

Question

I have three divs that I want to center side by side on a page. I also have some content such as <p> and <h3> tags in them

HTML (example)

<div id = "wrapper">

    <div class = "aboutleft"> 
        <h1> About us </h1>
        <h3> small description </h3>
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec tristique non odio nec 
            A few sentences about you go here 
        </p>
    </div>

    <div class = "vline"></div>

    <div class = "aboutright">
        <h1> About the shop/Clients </h1>
        <h3> small description </h3>
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec tristique non odio ne
            A few sentences about you go here 
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

CSS

.aboutleft
{
    display:inline-block;
    float:left;
    width: 450px;       
}

#wrapper
{
    text-align:center;
    width: 80%;
    margin: 0, auto;    
}
.aboutright
{
    display: inline-block;
    float:right;
    width: 450px;
}

.vline
{
    background: rgb(186,177,152);
    display: inline-block;
    float: left;
    min-height: 250px;
    margin: 0 30px;
    width: 1px;
}

The result of this is just the 3 divs all floating mostly to the left. I want to center all three of them on the page.

Answer 1

Try it without float and with text-align:center; on the #wrapper. Since your blocks are display:inline-block;, they'll center the same way text does.

Note that nto make it responsive, I swapped all your widths to % instead of px and removed some extra margin spacing. I've also added vertical-align:top; so the divs aline along the top.

#wrapper{
    text-align:center;
    width: 80%;
    margin: 0 auto;
    text-align: center;
}
.aboutleft,
.aboutright{
    display: inline-block;
    vertical-align:top;
    width: 48%;
}
.vline{
    background: rgb(186,177,152);
    display: inline-block;
    vertical-align:top;
    min-height: 250px;
    margin: 0;
    width: 1px;
}

http://jsfiddle.net/daCrosby/Ce3Uz/2/