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CSS - Centering A Division Within A Division
I know this is in the archives. I thought I understood how to do this but I can't seem to get it to work correctly. As always it's ie that won't render it correctly.
I have one division inside another. The outer division will center but the nested division will not. I've set html and body to text-align:center , I've added the text-align:center to the body tag and then the division to text-align: left . It's just not working. Here's the example code: Code:
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type='text/css'>
HTML { align-text:center;}
body { align-text:center;}
#wrapper { margin: 50px auto; text-align: left; height:124px; width: 250px; }
.upper { margin: 15px auto; width: 50%;}
</style>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" style="text-align:center">
<DIV id="wrapper">
<DIV class="upper">Just some text. Just some text. Just some text. Just some text. Just some text. Just some text.</div>
Text to show the area.
</div>
</body>
</html>
Help Also, why is it necessary to have the text-align=center definition in both the embedded sheet and the in-line. Similar TutorialsI know how to center a division horizontily in a page with this: Code: #division {
width:800px;
left:50%;
margin-left:-400px;
}
Now I havent been able to center it both horizontilly and vertically, in a fashion that will resize the division based on the resolution. In other words I do not want to use absolute left or right locations. Any help would be appreciated, thanks! after just getting my site fixed up, I have encountered a small problem with the divs, where the middle div (the main content) just ignores the right div (where im going to put adds). I was hoping someone could take a quick look at it and tell me how i could fix this small problem. http://funnyguys99.tripod.com/index.htm There are better details of the errors on my page, if you didn't quite get the problem. I have a division on my web page. I've set the width to 800 and the height to 100. Inside of the division I have 3 nested divisions The first holds a logo and is positioned absolutely within the wrapping division so that it appears on the left side. The division has a background image and the word "HTML" that is centered both vertically and horizontally within the nested division. The second nested division is positioned so that the text within it appears in the upper right of the wrapper. The third nested division is positioned so that the text displays in the lower right hand. The problem is that in IE I am getting alot of white space between the bottom of the wrapper and the bottom of the third nested division. This does not happen in firefox. Can anyone tell me what is hapening here. Hi, these forums have being a godsend to me so far, providing really useful information on my road to becoming a webdesigner, I wondered if someone could help me with a CSS problem I am having. I want to have a green background behind some text, however, I want the background to just be behind the text not to extend all the way across the screen. I think that the best way to do this is to have a division that I set the length of using CSS and include the text in there, my code so far is as follows: <style type="text/css"> body {background-color:} h1 {background-color: #00ff00} p {background-color:} h2 {background-color: transparent} div.block {style=width:300px} </style> <div style="width: 300px"} <p><h1>THIS TEST</h1></p> </div> <div class="block"> <p><h1>THIS TEST</h1></p> </div> For some reason the div is not tallying with the div.block in the style sheet, if I specify the width of the division in the actual html tag within the body its working fine, can anyone spot what I might be doing wrong. I will give some time back at this forum helping others when I am finished on my current project in exhange for the time people have given up for me. Thanks Ok what i have been asked to do is set up a webpage with three divisions ( i think), in a column structure. Title at top then seperate divisions? for each of my books which will be getting added. Now the books should be contained as the book title, author, publisher etc with an image to the right of all this information. However the author, title and publisher have all different formats, the author should be bold, the title in italics etc etc. I am finding it difficult to know what tag to use to split up this information. Just now i have created a <div> section labelled book1 for the first book. How do you go about splitting up the txt within this division tag as i will be writing a CSS sheet to manipulate the author, title and publisher with all different formats. Thanks i have a layout like so: Image here the reason for the main block was to see if i could set the footer to the bottom of the main block so that it would stay below the content column, ive added a border to the main block to see where it is, and it only seems to go around the header and footer, ignoring the middle columns. You can view the site here, the big border at the top is the border around the main part Hi, I have been a CSS/XHTML developer for about 6 months now and I just came accross a problem that I have had difficulty solving... I have spent about a week on this problem, and still no luck... I kind of restarted too with no luck... I am thinking this may be a bug... But it works fine in IE... In firefox, the content division background does not continue, instead a footer background is moved up... This is so weird, I dont know how this can be possible... This has been extremely frustrating... If anyone can help, that would be great! Thanks a lot! Hi all, this is my CSS: Code: body {
font-family:arial;
font-size:14px;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.mainbar {
position:absolute;
height:100%;
width:600px;
display:block;
background-color:#F2F2F2;
top:0px;
bottom:0px;
z-index:0;
border-top: 0px solid #000000;
border-right: 1px solid #000000;
border-bottom: 0px solid #000000;
border-left: 1px solid #000000;
}
.contact {
position:absolute;
display:block;
height:40px;
width:600px;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
top:80%;
bottom:0px;
z-index:0;
border-top: 1px solid #000000;
border-right: 1px solid #000000;
border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;
border-left: 1px solid #000000;
}
.logo {
position:absolute;
display:block;
height:200px;
width:600px;
background-color:#CCCCCC;
top:10%;
bottom:10%;
border:1px solid #000000;
z-index:2;
}
.logoborder {
border-top: 0px solid #000000;
border-right: 1px solid #000000;
border-bottom: 0px solid #000000;
border-left: 1px solid #000000;
}
Now how do I go about centering all of this? I have put many frustrated hours into this, and have tried everything that could have a possibility of working but have come out with nothing. Any help would be appreciated! Please, I have read other forum posts and it is not clear what to do, so treat me like i'm 5 years old!!! Thanks! Jack. Hi, i am new to CSS and want to know about how to center a div tag for example i have the following code Code: <div style=""> </div> if i want to place this div in the middle of the browser window that is from equal distance from left right top bottom what will i have to put inside the style attributes. Please recommend Regards ltoso Hey. I'm having issues with getting my page to center in IE7 using margin: auto; It works fine in firefox. The page is at http://jbench.co.uk:81/. The CSS is at http://jbench.co.uk:81/css/css.php . The section where i think the problem is: CSS Code: Original - CSS Code #page { width: 900px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 14px 3px; min-height: 250px; font-size: 1.2em; }
#page {
Any help's appreciated. This list is a navigation bar that displays tabs horizontally. I can't seem to figure out what properties I need to use to center it correctly. I have 2 problems: 1. How can I get these list items centered? 2. the second level seems to have problems displaying horizontally in IE. How can I fix it? Code: <div id="tablenavcontainer">
<div id="navcontainer">
<ul>
<li><a href="/doctors/enroll/" rel="self" class="" id="purple" name="patientenroll">Enroll Patient</a></li>
<li><a href="/doctors/patients/" rel="self" class="" id="current" name="doctorspatients">My Patients</a></li>
<li><a href="/doctors/lab/" rel="self" class="" id="green" name="doctorlab">Lab</a></li>
<li><a href="/doctors/pharmacy" rel="self" class="" id="yellow" name="doctorpharmacy">Pharmacy</a></li>
<li><a href="/doctors/tools/" rel="self" class="" id="red" name="doctortools">My Office Tools</a></li>
<li><a href="/doctors/home/" rel="self" class="" id="graphite" name="doctorhome">Home</a></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="/doctors/patients/currentchart.html" rel="self" id="currentchart" name="currentchart" >Current Chart</a></li>
<li><a href="/doctors/patients/labhistory.html" rel="self" id="labhistory" name="labhistory" >Lab History</a></li>
<li><a href="/doctors/patients/symptomhistory.html" rel="self" id="symptoms" name="symptoms" >Symptom History</a></li>
<li><a href="/doctors/patients/prescriptionhistory.html" rel="self" id="prescriptions" name="prescriptions" >Prescription History</a></li>
<li><a href="/doctors/patients/reports.html" rel="self" id="reports" name="reports" >Restore Reports</a></li>
<li><a href="/doctors/lab/ordertesting.html" rel="self" id="ordertest" name="ordertest" >Order Testing</a></li>
<li><a href="/doctors/pharmacy/prescribe.html" rel="self" id="orderrx" name="orderrx" >Prescribe</a></li>
<li><a href="/logout.html" rel="self" id="" name="" >Log Out</a></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<br style="clear: both;" />
</div>
</div>
http://www.stevemedleyphotography.com/tempo/index.html What I am trying to do is make it so that the blue background is as it is already but the orange box is the full width of the window despite what resolution or window size the user has, and also is centered on the screen. -------BLUE--------- -------BLUE--------- -------BLUE--------- -----ORANGE------- -----ORANGE------- -------BLUE--------- -------BLUE--------- -------BLUE--------- Like that. I will be having some stuff within the orange div. I don't really know much CSS at all and am kinda guessing my way through it... poorly... Thanks for any help. Hey guys, I'm having trouble centering div boxes on my page, wondering if anyone can help. I have tried using {margin: 0 auto;} which works fine, but when the scrollbar appears on the page it knocks it off balance and the other content on the page becomes mis-aligned. I have also tried setting left margins to push the div to the middle, but I figured this would cause problems and wouldn't look right to people using higher than 1024x768 resolutions. Is there any other way? I was wondering how I could center a CSS div so I would have one column going thorugh the middle. I tryed using "center" in the CSS but that didn't work and then I read some where else about floats and how they will make every go to either the left or right. How would I go about centering a Div like that? Thankyou for any help. Hi, This is my first css only layout and I am trying to centre the navigation. But it wont. Any suggestions? http://www.wnv2.com/v9.htm <<link here CSS File: Code: /* CSS Document */
body {
background-image:url(bg.jpg); background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-color:#65B240;
margin:0;
font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
}
/*---------- Divs ------------*/
#wrapper {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
width: 600px;
}
#header {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
width: 600px;
height: 85px;
background-image:url(top.jpg);
}
#navigation {
margin: auto;
padding-left: 30px;
padding-right: 30px;
padding-top: 0px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
width: 540px;
height: 25px;
text-align:center;
}
#navigation ul {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
list-style-type: none;
background-color:#DDDDDD;
}
#navigation ul {
display: block;
float:left;
}
#navigation li, #navigation li a {
color:#59933E;
font-weight:bold;
letter-spacing:1px;
height: 25px;
display: block;
margin: 0 2 0 2;
float:left;
}
#navigation .left_nav {
width: 22px;
height: 25px;
display: block;
background-image:url(nav_left.jpg);
}
#navigation .right_nav {
width: 22px;
height: 25px;
display: block;
background-image:url(nav_right.jpg);
}
#middle{
background-image:url(middle.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
width:600px;
}
#navigation .spacer {
width: 5px;
height: 5px;
display: block;
background-image:url(nav_spacer.gif);
}
#contentswrapper {
margin: 0px;
padding: 5 55 5 55;
text-align: left;
width: 490px;
}
#bottom {
height:90px;
width:600px;
background-image:url(bottom.jpg);
}
HTML: View Cource Thanks Hey everyone, I am fairly comfortable with HTML, and even know a decent amount of PHP and Javascript. But sometimes trying to do the simplest things in CSS makes my head spin! (this is one of those times). I've got a "scrolling" header at the top of a page (stays visible even when scrolling), and am trying to center a DIV (which contains opt-in forms) inside that header. It looks good when my browser window is maximized (at 1280x1024 resolution). But when I minimize the browser or check it in other screen resolutions, the "centering" of the opt-in forms are off. Here is the page... www.wordflood.com/Test/Scrolling_Header.html And here are the CSS includes... www.wordflood.com/Test/style.css www.wordflood.com/Test/IE6_style.css This was really just a quick hack from a "scrolling header" demo I found online, so I must have overlooked something. Any ideas? How can I, let's see how to say this. Align text to the middle of a div (up and down)... not really a center Normal: ________________________________ Text ________________________________ After: ________________________________ text ________________________________ THANKS Now while I did manage to work this out with margins and paddings, I have to ask how to do it properly. It's very basic. You have blank page. No wrappers no nothing. Then 1 div, holds, 1 ul, with 20 li. The div has specified width. How to center the ul inside the div? I need the UL to NOT have specified width since I'll be adding more items to it over time. Thanks! Hello, I have tried to use the auto margin to center a div within a div, but the auto margin only seems to work on the outermost div. Is there a workaround where I can center my content inside of a nested div? Take the example code: Code:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-color: orange;
}
#container {
width: 700px;
margin: 0 auto;
background-color: red;
}
#nested {
width: 700px;
margin: 0 auto;
background-color: blue;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="nested">
Text Here
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
So I want the nested div to have its content centered, so "Text Here" is in the center. |
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