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

Posted by Nick Summers
Nick Summers
753 Points

Quotations Causing <div> to not work properly?

Firstly, I'm using Notepad++, as it could just be something with that. I was having problems centering my #wrapper in my main.css file, and narrowed it down to being the <div> in my index.html. I found out the reason it wasn't working was because of the "" around it. Once I removed the quotes it worked fine. Why is that? Am I doing something wrong? I have other attributes, names, etc in my index.html file with quotes and have had no issues until now.

1 Answer

jacobproffer
jacobproffer
24,604 Points
jacobproffer
jacobproffer
24,604 Points

Hey Nick,

Can you post your code?

Nick Summers
Nick Summers
753 Points 
<div id=wrapper>
    <section>
    </section>
    <footer>
    </footer>
</div>

And my css:

#wrapper {
    max-width: 940px;
    margin: 0 auto;
    padding: 0 5%;

Whenever I put quotes around "wrapper" in my <div>, it doesn't apply. However when I remove them, it does. I feel like this is simply my program now though. Thanks!