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**kenster** · 04-14-2008, 02:38 PM

can anyone help here. My page centers fine in ie but not in firefox?

**LadynRed** · 04-14-2008, 02:50 PM

How are you trying to center it ?

I suggest you try reading the stickies: http://www.webmaster-talk.com/css-fo...r-website.html

**170 Designs** · 04-14-2008, 06:18 PM

body {
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
text-align: center;
}

That should do the trick, assuming you are using CSS

.

Matt

**joder** · 04-14-2008, 07:00 PM

No I don't since you didn't post a link.

**Gilligan** · 04-14-2008, 07:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 170 Designs

body {
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
text-align: center;
}

That should do the trick, assuming you are using CSS

.

Matt

sorry, I hate to do this but you can do this by margin:0 auto; just shorter that way

,

also text-align:center; isn't needed,

and there must be a width set

**LadynRed** · 04-14-2008, 07:57 PM

Hold on there... you can't margin: 0 auto on the BODY, that won't work, and setting a width on the BODY is equally pointless.

Apply margin: 0 auto, and a width on div you're trying to center, now THAT will work !

**Gilligan** · 04-14-2008, 08:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LadynRed

Hold on there... you can't margin: 0 auto on the BODY, that won't work, and setting a width on the BODY is equally pointless.

Apply margin: 0 auto, and a width on div you're trying to center, now THAT will work !

woops, thought he was setting it for a div.

**johniman7** · 04-14-2008, 08:43 PM

What I would do is create either a div named content or container (or a table consisting of one huge cell) and center that. Example...

Quote:

<html>
<body>
<center>
<div id="container"> My Content </div>
</center>
</body>
</html>

Of course, you would have to use html or css to set a width for that area.

**joder** · 04-14-2008, 08:46 PM

I wouldn't use the <center> tag. That is deprecated. Use CSS on a div like LadynRed pointed out.

**johniman7** · 04-14-2008, 09:59 PM

Yep, good point. I was thinking of using that but for simplicity sake used center. The center aligned div is needed for xhtml I believe as well.

**mynameisfai** · 04-14-2008, 10:07 PM

wow good info i get here

**d3c3nt** · 04-15-2008, 04:31 AM

wat ladyn said is rite
i tried the same n yea the probs fixed
cheers

**ShawnITSolution** · 04-15-2008, 10:12 PM

Hello,
Also if you are not using CSS, using Tables, is sort of older way to do them, but still pretty popular, just make sure the table it self, is centered and it should center perfectly and be able to expand to fit different resolutions, as long as you make the table in a % and not in Pixels.

Hope this helps some, please let me know if there is anything else I can do for you.

**Gilligan** · 04-16-2008, 07:06 AM

Don't use tables. Center with divs, NOT with tables

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