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Interesting article. Looks a

Guest — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:39:54 -0700

Interesting article. Looks a bit like one Andy Budd posted two years ago. Hmmm...

My Solution for aligning centre

Terry Cornwell — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:15:02 -0700

I always have a wrapper div called page so,

#page
{
	position: relative;
	left: 50%;
	margin-left: -400px;
	width: 800px;
}

Ok, so it's for fixed width sites, but thus far this has worked in every scenario I've come across.

In my experience, you can

Aaron Jensen — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:53:45 -0700

In my experience, you can also add the XHTML Transitional doctype to your document, which then causes IE to render correctly.

Thanks

PH — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:52:28 -0700

Great subject, one that many sites try to cover - this seems to be the answer - works fine.

Center Align a Main Content div in All Browsers

Chris Gaskell — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:32:41 -0700

Editor's note: after a friendly reader (see comment below) pointed out that this article was a pretty much word-for-word copy of another article, we have removed the text of the original article posted here and instead direct you to the article that was copied, "CSS Crib sheet #3 - Centering a Div," by Andy Budd.