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CSS How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets Style the Basic Elements

Terdema Ussery
Terdema Ussery
2,477 Points

centering a margin using css

is this not the way you center a margin within the wrapper?

wrapper {

    max-width: 940px;
    margin: 0 auto;

}

2 Answers

Yes, but you should have a hash symbol to select the div.

#wrapper {
  width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto; 
}
Terdema Ussery
Terdema Ussery
2,477 Points

agh your awesome, thank you!