Is there a way to center my site.........

**red71rum** · 04-26-2008, 02:48 PM

Is there a way to center my site. I just finished my web design class and my professor told me to use absolutes. I searched the forum and found several threads, but did not see what I could use instead of absolutes. And if I should not use absolutes, what can I use in CSS instead? Here is my site: www.owen-heuston.artapsu.com

Anyway, it is centered on macs in both Safaria and firefox, it is the pc that is a problem in bothe IE and firefox.

**chrishirst** · 04-26-2008, 03:39 PM

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/css-fo...r-website.html

**technica** · 04-26-2008, 03:48 PM

suggest you use <center> just after <body> tag and </canter> just before </body>tag.

so it will look like
<body>
<center>
your site code
</center>
</body>

hope it helps

**red71rum** · 06:01 PM

Thanks for the info guys, but I am unable to still center the site still. I went with
this fix:
body {
text-align: center;
min-width: 600px;
}

#wrapper {
margin:0 auto;
width:600px;
text-align: left;
}

But when I put it all right after body in my code, nothing is changed. I have included the code.

**chrishirst** · 04-26-2008, 07:50 PM

So, why do you have a stray <html> BEFORE the DTD?

**chrishirst** · 04-26-2008, 07:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by technica

suggest you use <center> just after <body> tag and </canter> just before </body>tag.

so it will look like
<body>
<center>
your site code
</center>
</body>

hope it helps

That is definitely NOT the way to centre a layout. The <center> tag has been deprecated for almost 10 years now.

**red71rum** · 04-26-2008, 11:16 PM

Quote:

So, why do you have a stray <html> BEFORE the DTD?

I actually don't know why, but I missed it before I posted the site as my end project for class. I have now deleted it. I must have missed it in my hurry to finish the site. Thanks for pointing that out, although I still can't center the site.