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

Zachary Swinehart
Zachary Swinehart
1,547 Points

how do you center the id wrapper?

I think I missed it in my css and in the challenge

2 Answers

Aaron Graham
Aaron Graham
18,033 Points

For margin: auto; to work, you also need to set a width.

#wrapper {
  width: /*some width*/
  margin: auto;
}
Joel Encinas
Joel Encinas
9,683 Points

The 2nd stage of that code challenge is like this:

#wrapper {
width: 940px;
margin: auto;
}