Centering All Content

[SamMan]

A few months ago, I recalled reading somewhere the way to center content in
Mozilla-based browsers was like this...

body {
margin: 0px auto;
text-align: center; /*for IE*/
}

My memory recalls this working, but now upon revisiting, it is not. What is
the proper way to center content?

Thanks.

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[Stan Brown]

Re: Centering All Content

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:39:14 GMT, "SamMan" <sam@psfdevri p-it.com>
wrote:
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>A few months ago, I recalled reading somewhere the way to center content in
>Mozilla-based browsers was like this...
>
>body {
> margin: 0px auto;
> text-align: center; /*for IE*/
>}
>
>My memory recalls this working, but now upon revisiting, it is not. What is
>the proper way to center content?[/color]

I don't know whether you want to hear this, but can I ask you to
reconsider the idea of centering all content?

Centered headings make sense, but centered text is quite hard to
read. It's also unattractive to my eyes,though that last part is a
matter of opinion.

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[Els]

Re: Centering All Content

SamMan wrote:
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> A few months ago, I recalled reading somewhere the way to center content in
> Mozilla-based browsers was like this...
>
> body {
> margin: 0px auto;
> text-align: center; /*for IE*/
> }
>
> My memory recalls this working, but now upon revisiting, it is not. What is
> the proper way to center content?[/color]

Almost right ;-)

Put the text-align:center on the body, and the auto left and right
margins on the element that holds your content.

http://locusmeus.com/html-css/centeringpage.html

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[SamMan]

Re: Centering All Content

"Els" <els.aNOSPAM@ti scali.nl> wrote in message
news:fhd4z7bzyz 53.1aqs30j75u2l $.dlg@40tude.ne t...[color=blue]
> SamMan wrote:
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>> A few months ago, I recalled reading somewhere the way to center content
>> in
>> Mozilla-based browsers was like this...
>>
>> body {
>> margin: 0px auto;
>> text-align: center; /*for IE*/
>> }
>>
>> My memory recalls this working, but now upon revisiting, it is not. What
>> is
>> the proper way to center content?[/color]
>
> Almost right ;-)
>
> Put the text-align:center on the body, and the auto left and right
> margins on the element that holds your content.
> http://locusmeus.com/html-css/centeringpage.html
>
> --
> Els http://locusmeus.com/
> Sonhos vem. Sonhos vão. O resto é imperfeito.
> - Renato Russo -[/color]


Not what I remember, but it certainly works!

Thanks.

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