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CSS - Centering A <div> Within Another Centred <div>?
I have a simple query, and don't know if this can be done.
I have a <div> layer, which is centred on the page, and I am trying to get another <div> within that to be centred as well. I have a sample page on http://jimpix.co.uk/002.htm which shows that this doesn't work. This is my code: ######################################### <html> <head> <style> body { text-align: center; } div#container { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 50%; text-align: left; border:10px solid pink; } div#container2 { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 50%; text-align: left; border:10px solid red; } </style> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <div id="container2">test</div> </div> </body> </html> ###################################### I thought that the 2nd div, would sit centred in the middle of the first one. Can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong, or if there is a way this can be done? Thanks Jim Similar TutorialsI am editing a CSS layout I have found. Basically, I want a fixed header. The original layout had the fixed header (AP Div) take up 100% width with right positioning of 16px to allow for the scrollbar, but this was making it awkward for me to centre another div within the Header/AP Div, so I have edited my layout like this: Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title></title>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
* {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
#printhead {
display:none;
}
html {
height:100%;
max-height:100%;
padding:0;
margin:0;
border:0;
background:#fff;
font-size:80%;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
/* hide overflow:hidden from IE5/Mac */
/* \*/
overflow: hidden;/* */
}
body {
height:100%;
max-height:100%;
overflow:hidden;
padding:0;
margin:0;
border:0;
background-color: #EAEBEB;
}
#content {
display:block;
height:100%;
max-height:100%;
overflow:auto;
position:relative;
z-index:3;
word-wrap:break-word;
}
#info {
width: 750px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
background-color: #666666;
padding-right: 25px;
padding-left: 25px;
}
#head {
position:absolute;
width:800px;
height:137px;
z-index:5;
border-top-style: none;
border: none;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
left: -400px;
margin-left: 50%;
}
.top-spacer {
display:block;
height:137px;
}
.btm-spacer {
display:block;
height:30px;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
width: 800px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
}
</style>
<style type="text/css" media="print">
html {
padding:0;
margin:0;
border:0;
background:#fff;
font-size:10pt;
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
min-height: 100%;
margin-bottom: 1px;
}
body {
padding:0;
margin:0;
border:0;
}
#content {
display:block;
position:relative;
z-index:3;
word-wrap:break-word;
}
#head {
display:none;
border-top-style: none;
border-right-style: none;
border-bottom-style: none;
border-left-style: none;
}
#printhead {
height:100px;
background:#fff;
font-size:24pt;
color:#000;
border-bottom:1px solid #000;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="head"></div>
<div id="content">
<div class="top-spacer"></div>
<div id="info">
<p>Type goes here and here
Type goes here and here
Type goes here and here
Type goes here and here
Type goes here and here
Type goes here and here </p>
<p> </p>
</div>
<div class="btm-spacer"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Basically, I have cheated to centre the AP Div, but now in Firefox, when there is overflow, the Div underneath the header moves over to accommodate the scrollbar, but the header doesn't. Can anyone suggest a workaround for this? Thanks. hey out there, 1st post so here goes: i've been designing our new website in css. it looks great in the following browsers: pc: ie6, ns7, firefox 1, mozilla 1 and above and opera 7.5 and above. mac: ns7, firefox 1, mozilla 1 and even safari. however, the centre layout totally breaks in ie 5.2 on a mac and i cant find out why. it's centring the content horizontally but not virtically. i *think* it's got something to do with static and relative positioning and the mac ie seems to be ignoring it. is there a hack i'm missing? this is the site: http://62.49.5.36:8181/28design/index.asp (ignore the black outlines on the divs, this is pury so you can see each div) and this is the main css that controls the centred layout and the navigation: /* controls for centering the page */ #centreTable { width: 100%; height: 100%; } #centreTable td { vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; } #containerDiv { position: relative; text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 750px; height: 400px; z-index:1 } #containerBckDiv { position: absolute; background-image: url(../images/28bck.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: right top; position: relative; text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 750px; height: 400px; } /* end */ /* controls for the main website areas */ #navDiv { position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 340px; height: 40px; } /* the discTxtDiv needs styling but gets it's ID name from the rs*/ .discTxtDiv { position: absolute; top: 40px; left: 0px; width: 340px; height: 80px; visibility: hidden; } #subNavTxtDiv { position: absolute; top: 120px; left: 0px; width: 170px; height: 40px; } #subNavDiv { position: absolute; top: 120px; left: 170px; width: 170px; height: 40px; } #jobTitleDiv { position: absolute; top: 160px; left: 0px; width: 170px; } #jobInfoDiv { position: absolute; top: 160px; left: 170px; width: 170px; } #contactDiv { position: absolute; top: 265px; left: 0px; width: 117px; height: 85px; } #imageDiv { position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 350px; width: 400px; height: 400px; } /* end */ as always, any suggestions are grand, cheers, jake Hi, I have been developing my own website for some time now, and have asked a lot of questions, and checked other CSS resources to do a horizontal list. I have managed to create a horizontal list and it looks very good in my website. However I wish to improve this. At the moment I have to give a width for each element in my list. This means that if I have 5 elements in my list then I set the following CSS property in the ul li as follows: Code: div#header ul li {
width: 20%;
padding: 0px;
}
If the elements become four then I would set the width equals to 25% and so on. I would like to change this so that the list will still appear the same without me having to set the width. This would mean I do not need to change the CSS file each time I add a new element in my list. My list is inside a div tag. I would like to have the elements inside that list extend through the whole space of the div. I have checked other websites to see the examples they give, however they all seem to only provide an example with a width. Is this possible? Or I have to always set the width of the li element? I am sorry if I am not clear enough. Thanks for any suggestions. Regards, Sim085 I have a site which uses a centred frame DIV for its content, as achieved by the normal technique of: margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; with the text-align: centre/text-align: left workaround for IE. The problem is that some pages are longer than the viewport, resulting in an overall vertical scrollbar. On those pages, In Firefox, Mozilla, and Opera, the content is centred in the space which remains after the vertical scrollbar is in place. This means that, when moving from a short page to a long page, or vice-versa, the whole page content moves from side to side. This does not happen in IE. To see what I am talking about, go to the following page: http://www.clearsight.info/demo/index.php?pageId=5 Click on the top link in the main text frame ("The Lindisfarne window"), and then go back and forth between the two pages. No problem in IE, but in FF/Moz/Opera, the page dances before your eyes. Is there any way around this? Thanks Tom 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. 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 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? im trying to center this div but im not to sure on how to do it Code: <style type="text/css">
div.img
{
margin:2px;
border:1px solid #0000ff;
height:auto;
width:auto;
float:left;
text-align:center;
}
div.img img
{
display:inline;
margin:3px;
border:1px solid #ffffff;
}
div.img a:hover img
{
border:1px solid #0000ff;
}
div.desc
{
text-align:center;
font-weight:normal;
width:120px;
margin:2px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="img">
<a target="_blank" href="klematis_big.htm">
<img src="klematis_small.jpg" alt="Klematis" width="110" height="90" />
</a>
<div class="desc">Add a description of the image here</div>
</div>
<div class="img">
<a target="_blank" href="klematis2_big.htm">
<img src="klematis2_small.jpg" alt="Klematis" width="110" height="90" />
</a>
<div class="desc">Add a description of the image here</div>
</div>
<div class="img">
<a target="_blank" href="klematis3_big.htm">
<img src="klematis3_small.jpg" alt="Klematis" width="110" height="90" />
</a>
<div class="desc">Add a description of the image here</div>
</div>
<div class="img">
<a target="_blank" href="klematis4_big.htm">
<img src="klematis4_small.jpg" alt="Klematis" width="110" height="90" />
</a>
<div class="desc">Add a description of the image here</div>
</div>
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 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 ? 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 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; } 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. 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. 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 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. 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>
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