how can you Center your page in CSS
Mar 17th, 2007 | By Rad | Category: CSS, Web site Design, websiteThe one thing that has bothered me the most about CSS design is the lack of standards. (W3C doesn’t count, or maybe they do!) I know what your saying “W3C has the standards set!” This is true, but nobody seems to follow it. Sure FireFox is just about the best at it, unfortunately too large a percentage of users are in I.E. still. This presents a problem. To fix the CSS on your site to work on all browsers, you need to hack this, and hack that, in order for it to work. The following are a couple of ways to get all browsers to center your content without hacks.
1) Ye old body centering trick.  body {text-align:center} now your all your content is centered. The draw back to this method I have found, is you have to define a container for the content to be placed in, then re-align everything inside it.
2) the negitive margin trick: #container {position:absolute;left:50%;left-margin:-375px;} this will make a container that is 750px wide and centered. Draw back….not fluid. set width for this type of setting.
3) auto margin idea: This one has a lot to say for it. You can set a site up with this one, and all will be centered. Liquid designing is posible, although I haven’t really tried a fixed width design with this one, I am not sure it would work. I will try it out on one and get back to you on it.
As you can see, my 3 ways of doing this centering thing work, but are not by any means the only way to do it. I hope they will at least help someone out of a pickel somewhere!
 Shannon Smith has been a graphic designer for almost 20 years. His love of art and design has lead him to the internet, and website design.
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