Hello!

I'm practicing design, and what I'm trying to do is center an h2 heading inside a division. I can't get it to work. My HTML reference book doesn't seem to have that information. (Of course, no book can tell you everything about anything. Hence the reason I'm practicing.) Thanks in advance for your help.

In your stylesheet:

#YourDiv h2 
{
text-align:center
}

If not using external stylesheets:

<style type="text/css">

#YourDiv h2 
{
text-align:center
}
</style>

within the head tags.

<div align="center"></div> but I recommend the css style above

The best way to make everything central, is to use <center> tag

<center>content</center>

You may also use CSS to do this, using the above code.

Yes, the center tag NEVER should have been depreciated.

Did the calendar go back to 1999 and nobody told me???


there is NO NEED TO DO ANYTHING AT ALL to a heading element to make it "centred"

heading elements are BLOCK elements so occupy 100% width of the parent container.
so having text-align:center; on the heading will centre-align the text.

the center SHOULD be depreciated... imo it doesn't flow with css control and adds weight to coding...

Originally Posted by orionoreo

the center SHOULD be depreciated...

It has been deprecated for years

lol i meant deprecated oops

CSS is nothing but code bloat.
Simple things that used to happen with one small piece of code now take 5 lines of CSS to achieve the same code affect.

There was nothing more simple than center and tables.
Now we have to fight floating divs and margins to achieve the same thing.

This standards committee has been so far off logic for years its pathetic.

You're being a luddite again Doug

You don't HAVE to use it of course, we won't grass you up to the CSS police.

New is not always better.

Ain't that a fact!

CSS is nothing but code bloat.
Simple things that used to happen with one small piece of code now take 5 lines of CSS to achieve the same code affect.

Oh, puuuhleeeeeeeeease.... lets do the time warp, shall we??
If it takes you 5 lines of CSS to center an HX element, then you don't know what you're doing

<Center>
vs
<Div align:center; margin:0; fullmoon:off; microsoftie:noexplode; set warning message:on; holdbreath:on;hope it works:on;>

Thanks for all the help. I realized my mistake. After working with it for a while, I realized the previous division had not properly been defined. I put an absolute position in the CSS and then it worked. Thanks again for helping the newbie.

Actually, there is much less "code bloat" with CSS methods, because it only needs to be linked to once. The larger your site, the more noticeable this difference is and the faster it becomes to develop the site as time goes on.

Never save five minutes now when you can save an hour in the future.

You coding junkies make me laugh. Iwhipped out a table variation for someone last night in about 10 minutes and it would have taken an hour to figure out how to make divs do the same thing and then hope that they didn't crash out in Internet Exploder.

Three column table layout:

<Table> <TR><TD></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD></TABLE>

Same effect with Divs would take far more code.
Plus all the IE correction code to make sure it doesn't crash.

Plus the fact that CSS will be a passing fad soon with the introduction of HTML 5,6,7,8.

Plus the whold new code set to facilitate 64 and 128 bit architectures and abilities.

HTML should been expanded, not abandoned.

It is missing a </tr> btw.

Actually that would be better done using <span>s not <div>s

<div><span></span><span></span><span></span></div>

</TR>

It was hiding under my keyboard......