I'm trying to centre align an image using a div and a CSS class (the tag is wrapped in a div class="center" tag). What I'm using at the moment is working in Dreamweaver (when I go to design view) but not when I load the page up in Safari. Here is my code:
.center {
display:inline;
text-align:center;
-webkit-inline;
-webkit-center;
background-color:transparent;
}
Sorry for asking such a simple question, I'm completely new to HTML, my experience is in Objective-C.
text-align: center caused the content to be centered (within the container), and not the container itself being centered.
Since you use display: inline, the size of the container will be the same as its content, and the centering will not have the effect you're after.
Either, you use the margin: 0 auto to center the container (towards its parent container), OR you change display: inline to display: block.
Give text-align:center; to it's .center parent DIV. Write like this:
HTML
<div class="parent">
<div class="center"></div>
</div>
CSS
.parent{
text-align:center;
}
.center {
display:inline;
background-color:transparent;
}
You can use margin : 0 auto , to a vertical align , but if you want a vertical-horizontal align , you need a code like this:
.center{
width:200px;
height:200px;
margin-left:-100px;
margin-top:-200px;
position:absolute;
top :50%;
left:50%;
}
margin: 0 auto. Is what you're looking for. You'll need a width also.
div.center { margin:0 auto; width: 20%;background:orange;}
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i'm with some problems here.. I've tried a lot of different fixes for this, but none of them seems to work. I want to align the content of a div in the middle of another div.
I want to use only auto or % values because i want to make the website also for mobile devices.
This is the code i have so far: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/xHpaF/
I want to make those red boxes aligned to the center of the wrap div.
If anyone can help me. Thanks!
Well, first of all, your <div id="content" /> is an ID, not a class. So change your .content in the CSS to #content. Second of all, float throws off the text-align: center;. If you remove that, and set it to display: inline-block;, it should fix your issues:
check it here: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/ncviE/
css changes:
#content {
width:auto;
height:250px;
margin:0 auto;
background:#0C0;
display:table-cell;
text-align:center;
}
.view {
display: inline-block;
float: none;
}
I'm trying to place a div that scrolls. I want it dead center on the page but it's not doing it with the code I provided below. Please help.
CSS
#content
{
text-align: center;
}
.scroll
{
background-color:#fff;
color:#000;
width:500px;
height:400px;
overflow:scroll;
}
HTML
<div id ="content">
<div class="scroll"> Stuff </div>
</div>
A div is a block level element and will not listen to text-algin. You will either need to use margin: 0 auto on the .scroll element or make the div an inline-block element. Though support for block level elements to be inline-block level elements is not totally supported so you would have to use a span for complete support. However the better option is if your div has a set width, use a left and right margin of auto on the element you want to center.
text-align only affects text. To position a <div> in the center, use
margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto.
try this
HTML
<div id ="content">
<div class="scroll"> Stuff </div>
</div>
CSS
#content
{
text-align: center;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
width:300px;
height:200px;
overflow: scroll;
}
.scroll
{
background-color:#fff;
color:#000;
width:500px;
height:400px;
}
live fiddle here
You can add display:inline;margin:auto to your <div>.
I made this:
HTML:
<body>
<div id="header" >
</div>
<div id="main" >
</div>
<div id="footer" >
</div>
</body>
CSS:
body
{
margin:0px;
}
#header
{
width:100%;
background-color:black;
height:60px;
}
#main
{
width:300px;
border:1px dotted black;
margin:0 auto;
}
#footer
{
width:100%;
background-color:black;
height:40px;
position:absolute;
bottom:0px;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/VpwQQ/2/
But as you can see, the main div doesn't have a height.
Then I replaced my css by that:
body
{
margin:0px;
}
#header
{
width:100%;
background-color:black;
height:60px;
}
#main
{
width:300px;
border:1px dotted black;
position:absolute;
margin:0 auto;
bottom:60px;
top:80px;
}
#footer
{
width:100%;
background-color:black;
height:40px;
position:absolute;
bottom:0px;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/VpwQQ/1/
But then, the horizontal center doesn't work.
How can I do this design (div centered and that takes all the page in height between the header and footer with a 20 px magin) ?
I'm not sure what you're trying to do, but I'll give my explaination of what's going to happen with your code:
Your #main div doesn't have a height because it doesn't have a height CSS property, nor does it have any content.
You should add either a height: 100px or just add some content and you will see it gets a height.
The reason why I ask what you want to do is because you're not very clear as to what you want your final product to look like.
You're going to have another problem with the footer. If you use position absolute it sticks to the bottom at the moment. Set the height of the #main div to something ridiculously high and you'll see that when you have to scroll down the page the footer stays where it is. See http://jsfiddle.net/VpwQQ/3/
You should use position: fixed but this will keep it on the bottom of the WINDOW and not the DOCUMENT. So then you get into the problem of having to use Javascript in order to measure the document height and setting positions appropriately. Not sure what you're trying to do, but if you're just trying to lay out a website then use standard relative positioning to push the footer down naturally below the #main div.
Edit:
See http://jsfiddle.net/VpwQQ/4/ if you're just trying to set up a normal website layout.
If you want the footer to "stick" to the bottom of the page all the time then you will need to use position: fixed but I don't think this works across all browsers. See http://jsfiddle.net/VpwQQ/6/
Lastly, to get both footer and header to "stick" see http://jsfiddle.net/VpwQQ/8/
I added a div inside #main.
Main now has a 100% width.
Inside, put a div of 300px, with no absolute position.
I forked your fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/8U9P6/
Personnally I prefer the javascript solution and not using the absolute position. But this solution seems to work.
Add and overflow to contain the content in the inside div: http://jsfiddle.net/M2nZc/
Note that the page will not grow as it is absolute position.
You can't use automatic margins on an absolutely positioned element, as it's not in the document flow any more.
Use width: 100% on the #main div, then put another element inside it that you center using automatic margins.
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/Guffa/VpwQQ/9/
Note: You may need to use height: 100% on the body and html elements for the bottom sizing to work on the #main element.
Once you fill your #main div with content, it will automatically gain height according to the content. You can simply fill it with a few paragraphs of lorem ispum to simulate content. You can now remove the absolute position and positioning CSS.
Centering a div using the "0 auto" shorthand only works when the parent element (which, for the #main div, is the body element) has a defined width. To do this, try giving your body element a width of 100%. Doing this is something that you might want to make a habit of in you CSS.
To have your #main div always be 20px below the #header div, simply add 20px of margin-bottom to your #header div. Do the same below the #main div to space the footer.
Summed up (without the footer at the bottom, for now) your CSS might read something like this:
body {
width: 100%
margin: 0px;
}
#header {
width: 100%;
height: 60px;
margin-bottom: 20px; /*here we space the header 20px from the next element*/
background-color: black;
}
#main {
width: 300px;
margin: 0 auto 20px auto; /*we append the margin to include 20px of spacing at the bottom*/
border:1px dotted black;
}
#footer {
width:100%;
height:40px;
background-color:black;
}
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/WEx3j/
If you want the footer to be 'sticky' (always be at the very bottom of your website), I advise you to employ this method.
I hope this clarified a few things.
I want to center the speaker div, which is within the review div. i cannot seem to get it working. :(
HTML:
<div class="review">
<div class="speaker">
<p>SPEAKER DIV</p>
</div>
</div>
CSS:
.speaker{
align:center;
}
This doesn't work :/
Give it a width and margin:0 auto;
<div class="review">
<div class="speaker">
<p>SPEAKER DIV</p>
</div>
</div>
div.speaker{
background-color:red;
width:100px;
margin:0 auto;
}
See it in action!
There’s no such CSS property as align.
When you say you want to “center” the speaker div, what exactly do you mean?
You can center-align its text like this:
.speaker {
text-align:center;
}
(See http://jsfiddle.net/pauldwaite/X7LN5/)
If, alternatively, you want the speaker div to only be as wide as its text, and be positioned in the center of the review div, then you’d need to use this:
.review {
text-align:center;
}
.speaker {
display:inline-block;
}
(See http://jsfiddle.net/wxha4/)
I'm about a year late to the party, but here goes:
In most browsers, this will work:
.speaker{
margin: 0 auto;
}
However, in IE8 and below, the margin:auto will not work (IE8 only if there is no !DOCTYPE declaration. See W3Schools Horizontal-Align Tutorial)
In that case, you can use a combination of text-align: center and width to get the desired effect:
.review{
text-align:center;
}
.speaker{
text-align:left;
width:200px;
margin:0 auto;
}
The downside to this method is that you have to declare a width, or it won't be centered.
Good luck!
It work perfectly.
.speaker{
margin: 0 auto;
text-align:center;
width:100%;
}
good luck
Give the parent a text-align: center;
Then you can move the child anywhere in the parent div
.speaker {
margin: 0 auto;
try
.speaker p{
text-align:center;
}
or
.speaker {
text-align:center;
}
There is no align attribute in CSS. Set the horizontal margins to auto to centre a block. See Centring using CSS for more details (including work arounds for Internet Explorer issues)
Thats because that syntax does not exist. You need to center the div via the margin attribute.
.speaker{
margin:0px auto 0px auto;
}
DEMO http://jsfiddle.net/t4kBj/
I have got a css problem.
http://www.luukratief-design.nl/dump/parallax/index.html
I cant get this page to align center.
Before i get the answer to use "text-align: center;" on the body, i already did.
The page 100% validates (CSS and HTML).
Please help, never had this before.
Set the left and right margins of the #wrapper div to auto
#wrapper{
margin:0 auto;
}
to align a page in the center you can place all the content of the page inside a container div and set these css properties
body
{
text-align: center; //for ie 6
}
#main_wrapper
{
text-align: left;
width: 1000px; //any width you want
margin: 0 auto;
}
here main wrapper is the div that contains all the content
add this to you wrapper:
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
Use this css to align to center:
<style>
#your_div_id {margin:0px auto;}
</style>