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

Purvi Agrawal
Purvi Agrawal
7,960 Points
Posted by Purvi Agrawal
Purvi Agrawal
7,960 Points

Help with this task!

Hi,

This is what was taught in video to center the content using margin selector. But I am unable to figure out what is wrong. Help me with this please !

The task is : Select the wrapper, set a max width of 940 pixels, and then center it on the page using the margin property.

The code I wrote is : #wrapper{ max-width : 940px; margin : 0 auto; }

Bummer : Check the margin values in your CSS.

3 Answers

Howard Slatter
Howard Slatter
8,049 Points
Howard Slatter
Howard Slatter
8,049 Points

Not sure, it works for me:

#wrapper{
    max-width: 940px;
    margin: 0 auto;
}
Purvi Agrawal
Purvi Agrawal
7,960 Points
Purvi Agrawal
Purvi Agrawal
7,960 Points

Thank U Jeff ... But the space should have no impact .. !!! May be its the task that is configured that way.

Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points
Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points

Hi Purvi,

remove the spaces before the colons :

Jeff

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

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