CSS - Centering An Element

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?

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

Good day to you all,
I'm working on a pop up css box.
My problem is that I can't make it to be centered.


Here is my code :

PHP Code:
echo "<a onmouseover=\"this.style.cursor='pointer'\" onfocus=\"this.blur();\" onclick=\"document.getElementById('$namess').style.display = 'block' \" >\r"; 
echo "<span><img src=\"http://ponder.peuplies.info/V_0-1/Art/".$imgdir."".$img."\" width=\"50\" border=\"0\" title=\"".$img."\" alt=\"".$img."\" /></span></a>\r";

echo "<div id=\"$namess\" align=\"center\" style='display: none; position: absolute; margin: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;    border: solid black 1px; padding: 10px; background-color: rgb(255,255,225); text-align: justify; color:#000000; font-size: 12px; '>\r"; 
echo "This is a CSS Popup that can be positioned anywhere you want on the page and can contain any test and images you want.\r"; 
echo "<img src=\"http://test.com/Art/".$imgdir."".$img."\" width=\"50\" border=\"0\" title=\"".$img."\" alt=\"".$img."\" />";
echo "<br />\r"; 
echo "<div style='text-align: right;'><a onmouseover='this.style.cursor=\"pointer\" ' style='font-size: 12px;' onfocus='this.blur();'  onclick=\"document.getElementById('$namess').style.display = 'none' \" ><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;  color:#000000;\">Close</span></a></div>\r"; 
echo "</div>\r"; 






Can somebody help me ?

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

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!

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 {


  width: 900px;


  margin: 0 auto;


  padding: 14px 3px;


  min-height: 250px;


  font-size: 1.2em;


 } 

Any help's appreciated.

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.

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?

Hi, I'm trying to design a web page and I want to center all the content (including the background), and have another background behind all of that. I can't figure out how to center everything. When I put a <div> around all the content and center it in CSS, only certain elements(some graphical buttons) get centered while all of the text stays lined up to the left. Any ideas? I'm sure I'm making a really silly mistake.

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.

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

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>

Hi there,

I am trying to center a div within a div. The container div needs to stretch 100% width. It works in FF, but not IE.

Any ideas?
This is my code:

PHP Code:
#top_bar{
background-image: url('img/top_bar.jpg');
height: 54px;
font-family: arial;
font-size: 14px;
color: #ffffff;
width: 100%;
}



#top_bar_content{
padding: 18px 0 10px 0px;
width: 870px;
margin: 0 auto;
position: relative;
}