CSS - Text-align: Center For Body Does Not Work

I am relatively new to using div tags - transitioning from table tag to organize pages. I want the checkboxes to be aligned to the left inside a container that is centered in the body. Currently it is all aligned to the left for some reason. The body tag has no text-align or any other css rule manually set.

Code:

<div style="display: block;text-align;left;float: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto; border: .1em solid;width:400px; position: relative; clear:both;">
<div style="display: block;text-align;left;float: left;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto; border: .1em solid; position: relative; clear:both;">
<INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="cartoon">cartoon<BR>
<INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="comicstrips">comicstrips<BR>
</div>
</div>

thanks.

Firefox: all looks fine except the checkbox container does not appear to be inside the surrounding container - the outer container div appears as a line (it's border) at the top of the inside div with the checkboxes

IE8: on a test page with nothing else - appears as Firefox. In my page with several other divs it appears with one container inside another fine, but the main container is not centered.

I have looked at several tutorials about float etc but...wits end...
thanks.

im sure this may be answered somewhere on this forum inside another post, but using search, i could not find anyone who had actually asked this specific question... i found a few posts back in 2002 that never got a responce... i'd hope we'd have an answer 3 years later...

anyhow, my question is quite simple... i think..

i have a div that is 50px in height, and has some text inside it.. the text aligned center, and now i want it to vAlign center.. but the CSS doesnt seem to work... my problem is that the text in that field changes quite often, and having to constantly change margins in CSS would be a pain.

anyhow, now for a snippit

Code:

   .advertboxtitle {
  margin:10px 0px 0px 110px;
  height:50px;
  border:1px dashed #900;
  font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  font-size:14px;
  color:#CCFFFF;
  font-weight:bold;
  text-align:center;
  }
  	 .advertboxtitlevalign {
  	  vertical-align:middle;
  	  } 
  

Code:

  <div class="advertboxtitle">
 <span class="advertboxtitlevalign">From X-Box to Xbox</span>
 </div>
  

anyhow, reason why it is in a span is because i read that inline elements react to vertical-align:middle... but apparently not... anyhow, here is a link..

http://defunctgames.com/helpfix/middle.htm

the text needs to be align verticaly in the dashed red box.

thanks

I'm wondering how to "vertical-align: middle" the text in the anchor tags. I haven't got that part to work.

Code:

a.aMenuLinks:link
{
  color: #666666;  
  font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;
  font-size: 8pt;
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: bold;
  text-decoration: none;
  text-indent: 15px;
  width: 100%;
  height: 25px;
  display: block;
}

Thanks...

Hi,

The text in my navigation bar is slightly off-centre, even though I have applied the text-align:centre property in my style sheet. Is there anything obvious that would be throwing it off?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jimmy

Here is my style sheet:

body
{
padding:0px;
margin:0px;
background-color:#ffffff;
background-image:none
background-repeat:no-repeat;
font-family:verdana, arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:11px;
color:#333;
}
/*--------------------DIVs------------------------------*/
div#pagecenter
{
margin: 0 auto;
width: 1024px;
background-color:#ffffff;
}

div#header
{
height:312px;
background-color:#ffffff;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background: ((address blocked: See forum rules));
padding:5px;
text-align:right;
text-display: none;
color:#FFFFFF;
}

div#desc
{
visibility: hidden;
text-align:left;
}

div#sitename
{
visibility: hidden;
}
div#oup h1 a {
margin-top: -30px;
margin-left: 10px;
margin-right: auto;
width: 100px;
height: 30px;
display: block;
font-size: 0px;
color: #003261
}
div#oup h1 a:hover {color: #003261}
div#clickableheader h1 a {
margin-top: 20px;
width: 1000px;
height: 200px;
display: block;
font-size:0px;
color: #003261;
}
div#clickableheader h1 a:hover {color: #003261}

/* nav */
#nav {
width: 400px;
margin-left: 0px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-top: -70px;
line-height: 20px;
height: 100px;
text-align: center;
font-size: 12px;}
#nav ul {list-style-type: none;}
#nav li {display: block; float:left; width: 50px; padding: 40px 20px 40px 25px; border: none; background: url("images/DBlueUp.jpg") no-repeat;}
#nav li.page-item-6 {padding: 23px 20px 20px 25px; border: none; background: url("images/PU.jpg") no-repeat;}
#nav li.page-item-6.current_page_item {padding: 23px 20px 20px 25px; border: none; background: url("images/PD.jpg") no-repeat;}
#nav li.current_page_item {border: none; background: url("images/DBD.jpg") no-repeat;}
#nav li.page-item-51 {text-align: center; padding: 20px 25px 20px 20px; border: none; background: url("images/GreenUpCentre.png") no-repeat;}
#nav li.page-item-51 a {text-align: center;}
#nav li.page-item-51.current_page_item {padding: 20px 25px 20px 15px; border: none; background: url("images/GD.jpg") no-repeat;}
/* navright */
#navright {
width: 400px;
margin-left: auto ;
margin-right: 0px ;
margin-top: -110px ;
line-height: 20px;
height: 100px;
text-align:center;
font-size: 12px;}
#navright ul {list-style-type: none;}
#navright li {display: block; float:left; width: 50px; padding: 20px 20px 20px 20px; margin: 5px; border: none; background: url("images/LBU.jpg") no-repeat;}
#navright li.page-item-2 {border: none; background: url("images/OU.jpg") no-repeat;}
#navright li.page-item-2.current_page_item {border: none; background: url("images/OD.jpg") no-repeat;}

#navright li.page-item-48.current_page_item {border: none; background: url("images/LBD.jpg") no-repeat;}
#navright li.page-item-13 {padding: 20px 20px 40px 20px; border: none; background: url("images/contact.jpg") no-repeat;}



div.left-navi-blog
{
width:255px;
margin-right:10px;
float:left;
}

div.left-widget
{
width:255px;
margin-top:40px;
background-color:#ffffff;
padding-top:1px;
padding-bottom:200px;
}

div#leftbarfooter
{
background-color:ffff00;
height:15px;
}

div#rightbarfooter
{
background-image:none;
height:15px;
}
div.center-gauche-area
{
width:755px;
margin-right:10px;
float:left;
margin-top:-50px;
}

div.center-blog
{
width:500px;
margin-right:10px;
float:left;
margin-top:-0px;
}

div.post-title
{
visibility: hidden;
margin:0px;
padding:5px;
height:16px;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
}

div.post-content
{
background-color:#FFFFFF;
margin:0px;
padding:5px;
text-align:center;
border-top:#000000 0px solid;
border-bottom:#000000 0px solid;
}

div.post-meta
{
color:#FFFFFF;
margin:0px;
padding:4px;
height:14px;
margin-bottom:10px;
background-color: #ffffff;
}

div.single-meta
{
border:#444 1px dashed;
padding:2px;
margin:5px;
margin-top:10px;
color:#202D32;
background-color:#B0BDC5;
font-size:10px;
}

div.main-meta
{
border:#ccc 1px dashed;
padding:2px;
margin:5px;
margin-top:10px;
color:#666;
background-color:ddd;
font-size:10px;
}

div.commentblog
{
background-color:#B0BDC5;
margin:0px;
padding:5px;
text-align:center;
border-top:#000000 1px solid;
border-bottom:#000000 0px solid;
}
div.singlecommentborder
{
float:left;
}

div.gravatorblog
{
float:left;
width:70px;
}

div.singlecomment
{
float:left;
width:410px;
}

div.right-navi-blog
{
width:200px;
float:left;
}
div.right-widget
{
margin-top:80px;
width:200px;
background-color:#ffffff;
padding-bottom:4px;
padding-right:5px;
}

div.widget-header
{
color:#000000;
font-weight:bold;
padding-left:10px;
padding-top:3px;
}

div.clear
{
clear: left;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
height: 0;
line-height: 0;
font-size: 0;
}
div#sharebar
{ margin-right:auto;
margin-left:auto;
margin-bottom:0px;
background:#fff;
height:30px;
padding:25px;
color:#003261;
}
div.ouplegal
{
margin-top:0px;
background:#cbeefe;
height:12px;
text-align:center;
padding:5px;
color:#003261;
font-size:10px;
}
div#footer
{
margin-top:0px;
background:#003261;
height:40px;
text-align:center;
padding-top:20px;
color:white;
font-size:16px;
}
div#footer :link {text-decoration:underline}

/*--------------------textgestaltung--------------------*/
p{
margin:0px;
}
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6{
color:#000000;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
font-size:11px;
}

acronym, abbr, span.caps {
cursor: help;
}
acronym, abbr {

}
blockquote {

}
blockquote cite {

}

hr {

}


dl{
}
dt{
}
dd{
}
ul
{
margin:0px;
margin-left:12px;
list-style:none;
padding-left:8px;
}
ol{
}
li
{
list-style:square;
margin-top:3px;
padding-top:2px;
padding-bottom:2px;
color:#810000;
}
ul ul{
}
blockquote{
}
blockquote p{
}
code{
}
pre{
}
b, strong,i,em {
}
img{

padding:3px;
margin:2px;
}
address {
}

img.ogtzuq{
border:0px;
color:#3B4D56;
}
/*--------------------linkgestaltung--------------------*/

a {text-decoration:none;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
a:link {
text-decoration:none;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
a:visited {
text-decoration:none;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
a:link:focus{
}
a:link:hover, {
font-weight: bold;
}

.post-content a{
color:#333;
}
.post-content a:link
{
color:#333;
}
.post-content a:visited{ color:#333;
}
.post-content a:link:active,
.post-content a:visited:active{color:#333;
}

#single-meta a{
color:#333;
}
#single-meta a:link
{
color:#333;
}
#single-meta a:visited{ color:#333;
}
#single-meta a:link:active,
#single-meta a:visited:active{color:#333;
}
.commentblog a{
color:#333;
}
.commentblog a:link
{
color:#333;
}
.commentblog a:visited{ color:#333;
}
.commentblog a:link:active,
.commentblog a:visited:active{color:#333;
}
/*--------------------bilder als links--------------------*/
a img{

padding:3px;
margin:2px;
}
a:link img {
}
a:visited img {
}
a:link:active img,
a:visited:active img {
}

a:link:hover img,
a:visited:hover img {
padding:3px;
margin:2px;
}
/*--------------------smilies im text--------------------*/
body img.wp-smiley{
}

/*--------------------der weiterlesen link--------------------*/
.more-link{
}
/*--------------------die seiten wenn es mehrere gibt--------------------*/
p.serif{
}
/*--------------------suche--------------------*/
#searchform{
}
input#s{
}
input#searchsubmit{
}


/*--------------------Kommentare--------------------*/
.alt {

}
.commentlist { padding:0px;
margin:0px;

}

.nocomments {
text-align:center;

}

.commentlist li {
padding:0px;
margin:0px;
list-style:none;
color:#111;

}
.commentlist cite,
.commentlist cite a {

}
.commentlist p {
text-align:center;
padding:0px;
padding-top:5px;

}
#commentform p {

}
.commentmetadata {

}
#commentform input {
border:1px solid #333;
margin-bottom:3px;
}
#commentform textarea {
border:1px solid #333;
width:488px;
}
#commentform #submit {

}
/*--------------------fuer den wp kalender--------------------*/

#wp-calendar th {

}

#wp-calendar {
empty-cells: show;

}
#wp-calendar #next a {

}
#wp-calendar #prev a {

}
#wp-calendar a {

}
#wp-calendar caption {

}
#wp-calendar td {

}
#wp-calendar td.pad:hover {
}

/*-------------------- widgets---------------------*/
h2.widgettitle{
}
.widget {
}
/*--------------------Archive--------------------*/
li#archives{
}
.widget_archives{
}
/*--recent posts--*/

li#recent-posts{
}
.widget_recent_entries{
}

/*--------------------text widget--------------------*/
li.widget_text{
}
/*--id haengt von der nummer des text widgets ab*/
li#text-4{
}
div.textwidget{
}
/*--------------------links blogroll--------------------*/
li#links{
}
.widget_links{
}

/*--------------------kategorien--------------------*/
li#categories{
}
.widget_categories{
}
/*-------------------WP Requires------------------*/
.aligncenter {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
.alignleft {
float: left;
}
.alignright {
float: right;
}
.wp-caption {
border: 1px solid #ddd;
text-align:center;
background-color: #f3f3f3;
padding-top: 4px;
margin: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
-khtml-border-radius: 3px;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
}
.wp-caption img {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0 none;
}
.wp-caption-dd {
font-size: 11px;
line-height: 17px;
padding: 0 4px 5px;
margin: 0;

}

is text align restricted to div tags only? and/or block level elements?

and if so, how could i get the program names (ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!) to text-align:left..... and the contact info to align right.... do i HAVE to use a float for this?

http://defunctgames.com/contactinfo.htm

I've got this page here and for some reason, it works fine in Internet Explorer, but in Safari, everything is aligned to the left!?

Which is strange, because the Glish tutorial I'm using works just fine in both IE and Safari.

What have I done wrong in my code??

Hi,

I'm using XHTML & CSS (strict dtd) and using one large table to format my pages.

Within the table I have different alignments and any other sort of thing that you would find in a table.

W3.org says my XHTML --AND-- CSS are VALID, so why does the main table render off to the left of the page in Netscape??

Everything within the table is great, but the table itself is not centered.

I'm using CSS in the following manner to try to center it currently

Code:

<!-- All the doctype stuff and head tags go here...-->

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

<!-- Rest of the document -->

It works greate in IE (but what doesen't), so is this the wrong attribute to use to center the documents content in Netscape.

As you may know "<center>" is not defined in the XHTML strict dtd so that options out.


Thanks for any help or suggestions,

Kalan

I am trying to center the whole page. the body contains all divs, contained in one main div. I tried I trick I have been using for a while but it messed with one the other divs. I was using

Margin-Left:-375px; Position:Absolute; Left:50%;

any ideas for another way to center my page?

Here is my problem. I need to make a menu and a body of a page end at the same pixel, so that they look neat and so that a footer can go underneath. Right now, I'm trying to make a div which contains the menu and the body and making the heights of both 100% so if one is longer than the other, the div should automatically be as long as the other. However, my outer div seems non-existant (0px high) for some reason, even though both the menu and the body are nested in it and have content. Anyone have a solution?

I have googled it and searched through this forum as well. And found pretty much the same advice. However it does not appear to work for me.

My CSS file has the following:
Code:

body {
padding: 0;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #FFFFFF;
background-color: #000000;
font-size: 12px;
line-height: 15px;
text-align: center;
}

.largeLink{
	font-size: 14px;
}
.bodyTextSm{
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
font-weight: normal;}


div#pageContainer{
margin-top: 5px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
text-align: left;
}
...

and my php file contains:
Code:

<body bgcolor="#000000" onLoad="MM_preloadImages('/images/TopNav_r1_c1_f2_online_movies.gif','/images/TopNav_r2_c3_f2_online_movies.gif','/images/TopNav_r2_c4_f2_online_movies.gif','/images/TopNav_r2_c5_f2_online_movies.gif','/images/TopNav_r2_c6_f2_online_movies.gif')">
<?php include_once("GoogleAnalytics.php") ?>
<!--The following section is an HTML table which reassembles the sliced image in a browser.-->
<!--Copy the table section including the opening and closing table tags, and paste the data where-->
<!--you want the reassembled image to appear in the destination document. -->
<div id="pageContainer">
...

And I am not getting the page to center. What gives?

My new site can be found at http://www.rockapedia.co.uk/index2.php

It works exactly how I want it in Firefox but IE doesn't appear to centre the whole page.

Can someone advise please.

How? I want to be able to do it from my stylesheet.

Thanks guys.

my entire page's body is contained in a div. the width of this thing doesnt change. i want to keep the page on the center of the browser widow.
i tried <div align=center>......

but this aligns the contents of the div and not the div itself.

please help

Hi all,

I have a layout where I have a banner at the top and I want the column below it to align in the center of the page, like this ... How can I do this?

Also, can someone tell me how to make the top banner column fill the whole width of the page?

Thanks.

hello
i have this style in a css file....

.subheadinginvgreen {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
color: #006666;
font-weight: bold;
sline-height: .2em;
align:center;
}

somehow when i apply it to a div tag, it does not center the text...e.g. <div class="">test text</div>