centering my website

Gothboi · Post by **Gothboi** » Wed May 03, 2006 9:27 am

hi

i'm trying to centre my website, it's only 800px wide...so it fits on any monitor settin but the thing is on monitors with a higher res (like mine...i run my machine on 1280 x 1024) the site is all on the left side and the rest of the screen is just filled with a bg image (in my case solid black)

...what i'm trying 2 ask...how do i create margins so that my 'site' is always in the middle of the screen

some poeple told my i should add this code:

body {
width : 800px;
margin-left : auto;
margin-right : auto;
}

...but that piece of code changes nothing at all

please help

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Wed May 03, 2006 1:23 pm

Try this:

After the <body> tag, type <center>

Then, right before the </body> tag, type </center>

Churusaa · Post by **Churusaa** » Thu May 04, 2006 9:03 am

Where are you adding that code? It should probably go in your <body> tag, as such:

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<body {
width : 800px;
margin-left : auto;
margin-right : auto;
} >YOURPAGE</body>

---Churusaa

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Thu May 04, 2006 11:34 am

That'd actually end up centering EVERYTHING. Text, title images, image bars, the comic, tables, etcetera. At least, I'm pretty sure that is what it would do.

If you like the layout of your page, but just want your page itself (in that layout) centered, you can put your whole page within a table, then center the table. Someone will probably hit me with a stick for doing that because I'm sure it's not up to standard for code, but it would work.

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--- header, line for body, div, etcetera ---
<center>
<table width=800 border=0>
<td width=100% border=0>

--- entire comic and website portion ---

</td>
</table>
</center>

Gothboi · Post by **Gothboi** » Mon May 08, 2006 10:52 am

thanx...it's all fixed now. i just added <centre> </centre> to the body...damn that was easy

Churusaa · Post by **Churusaa** » Mon May 08, 2006 6:47 pm

I guess now would be a bad time to tell you it's not centering in Firefox 1.07, wouldn't it?
---Churusaa

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