How to center body on a page?
Solution 1
Also apply text-align: center; on the html element like so:
html {
text-align: center;
}
A better approach though is to have an inner container div, which will be centralized, and not the body.
Solution 2
body
{
width:80%;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
}
This will work on most browsers, including IE.
Solution 3
You have to specify the width to the body for it to center on the page.
Or put all the content in the div and center it.
<body>
<div>
jhfgdfjh
</div>
</body>
div {
margin: 0px auto;
width:400px;
}
Solution 4
For those that do know the width, you could do something like
div {
max-width: ???px; //px,%
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
}
I also agree about not setting text-align:center on the body because it can mess up the rest of your code and you might have to individually set text-align:left on a lot of things either then or in the future.
Ryan Peschel
Updated on April 13, 2020Comments
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Ryan Peschel about 4 years
I'm trying to center the body element on my HTML page.
Basically, in the CSS I set the body element to be
display: inline-block;
so that it is only as wide as its contents. That works fine. However,margin: 0px auto;
doesn't center it on the page.Does anyone know how to fix this? I want the big blue square to be centered on the page, not floating to the left like it is now.
Here's my CSS:
body { display: inline-block; margin: 0px auto; text-align: center; }