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center align a page Jeff Thies 08-05-2005
Posted by Jeff Thies on August 5, 2005, 2:27 am
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I've got a page with content that I want aligned in the center, with
equal margins on both sides (text, left aligned).

It seems to me that this is a complex thing to get right on most
browsers and required putting the page in a div and then body:
textalign: center
and a few other hacks

There was a site that explained this rather well but I can't seem to
google it up. Where is that?

The page in question is fixed width and image heavy (photos) so it
escapes the normally very good reasons to not center align.

Cheers,
Jeff

Posted by Jim Moe on August 4, 2005, 10:12 pm
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Jeff Thies wrote:
> I've got a page with content that I want aligned in the center, with
> equal margins on both sides (text, left aligned).
>
div.body { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; }
No hacks needed. Even works in IE6.

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Posted by Els on August 5, 2005, 9:14 am
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Jim Moe wrote:

> Jeff Thies wrote:
>> I've got a page with content that I want aligned in the center, with
>> equal margins on both sides (text, left aligned).
>>
> div.body { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; }
> No hacks needed. Even works in IE6.

If you want it to work in WinIE5 too:
http://locusmeus.com/html-css/centeringpage.html

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