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CSS How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets Center the Wrapper

Jevan Ayala
Jevan Ayala
1,217 Points
Posted by Jevan Ayala
Jevan Ayala
1,217 Points

Page centered?

When creating the code for #wrapper I noticed that Nick said the page is "centered," however, it does not look exactly centered on my screen. Is there a way to actually center the pictures on the page or do you have to guess the pixels?

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Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

You can set left and right margins to auto. However, you do need to have a width set on the element with auto margins, even if that width is a percentage of it's parent. The element will be centered to it's parent. Give an element a display property of absolute or fixed will negate the auto margins as this takes the element out of the flow of the DOM.