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I started writing my first website, and tried to center the container id in CSS using various methods found on the web (the most common of which being margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;) but it simply won't work, and I have no idea why, or what could I do about it (I know, I could make a table with three columns in the html file, but I don't want to mix and match tables and divs)
My code so far looks like this:
HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css"/>
</head>
<body>
<div id="content">
hello world!
</div>
</body>
</html>
CSS:
@charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */
body {
background-color:#FFF;
}
#content {
width:980px;
background-color:#FCC;
position: absolute;
display:block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
top: 0px;
bottom:0px;
align:center;
}
679
Replace position: absolute; with position: relative; in #content(CSS).
JSFiddle - DEMO and Full Screen View
body, html {
background-color:#FFF;
height:100%;
}
#content {
width:980px;
height: 100%;
background-color:#FCC;
position: relative;
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
top: 0px;
bottom:0px;
text-align:center;
}<div id="content">hello world!</div>More Info about margin: 0 auto; center to work:
What, exactly, is needed for
margin: 0 auto;to work?
Add left: 50%; and margin-left: -490px; (half width of #content div) to #content
JSFiddle - DEMO and Full Screen View
#content {
width: 980px;
background-color: #FCC;
position: absolute;
display: block;
top: 0px;
bottom: 0px;
margin-left: -490px;
left: 50%;
text-align: center;
}
Container is in center you need to align text in the center if you want,
align:center
should be
text-align:center;
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