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**silverglade** · 11:06 AM

i have 3 divs centered in the page called "leftrectangle" "centerrectangle" and "leftrectangle" inside a container div, and i get white space to the left of "rightrectangle" inside the container div. any help greatly appreciated. here is the code. derek

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
#wrapper {
  width: 760px;
  margin-right: auto;
  margin-left: auto;
  border-right: 2px solid #ffffff;
  border-left: 2px solid #ffffff;
  }
  #box{
   
  margin-right: auto;
  margin-left: auto;
  background-color:orange;
  width: 50px;
  height: 50px;
  padding: 0 px;
  }
  #rectangle{
  position: relative;
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right:auto;
  margin-top: 0px;
  background-color: orange; 
  width: 760px;
  height: 50px;
   padding: 0px;
   }
  #leftrectangle{
   
   float:left;
  
  background-color: blue;
  width: 33.3%;
  height: 50px;
  padding: 0px;
  }
   #centerrectangle{
  float:left;
  
  background-color: red; 
  width: 33.3%;
  height: 50px;
   padding: 0px;
   }
  
  #rightrectangle{
  float:left;
  
  background-color: green; 
  width: 33.3%;
  height: 50px;
   padding: 0px;
   }
   
  </style>
</head>
 
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
  <div id="box" > </div>
  <div id="rectangle"></div>
  <div id ="leftrectangle"></div>
  <div id = "centerrectangle"></div>
  <div id ="rightrectangle"></div>
</div>
</body>
 
</html>

**silverglade** · 12-02-2008, 11:08 AM

Nevermind, it wasnt showing up right in dreamweaver, but it shows up perfectly in internet explorer. but if you see any errors in my code please help. thank you .derek

**specialk** · 12-09-2008, 04:03 AM

can you find a online example of this successfully programmed? Examine their source code.