How to put <center></center> between body tags

Use CSS instead of <center>.

body {
margin: 0 auto;
}

edit: Shame on me

CSS:

.container {
  margin: 0 auto;
}

HTML:

<div class="container">
 <!-- content goes here -->
</div>

Hi

I may be wrong (I often am), but I think you need to have a fixed width defined in order that the auto thing will work. So, either the body has a width (of, say 760px), or you make a pagecontainer div (or somesuchlike) and do the same.

Trevor
PS, this centering method won't work for IE5, which needs text-align:center

You are wright. I must have a width for the body (600px) for {body margin: 0 auto} to work. Excellent idea! Thanks!

do not give body fixed witdh.
first DIV "box or Container"..
<div align="center">
.. content..
next one (div) you give fixed width..
</div>

Why not?

FireFox centers quite well with a width to the body! I confirm.

Hi

Tyssen, what happens to a repeating background image if the body is width-restricted?

Trevor

What on earth is this thread on about :? it looks like a good candidate or the prize of "posts most at cross purposes"

Why are we trying to center the 'body'? and why are we giving it fixed width? (not that it's not possible)

I think what Alexx was trying to say was not to center the body but to center a container within body as is normal practise.

@ntrg why do feel the need to work on the body tag in this fashion? rather than center a container/wrapper div using fixed width and auto margins and text-align:center on the body tag.

It would just repeat over the declared body width, wouldn't it?

But we haven't mentioned the html tag.

Hugo.

:oops: What I meant to say in the first place, I did not intend to center a the body, but a container in it.

Hi Hugo

That was why I made my first post.

Then there was a suggestion of a fixed width on the body, to which my answer was to pose that question, because the answer, which I knew (thanks) would probably not be what anyone would want to do.

I thought my first answer was what ntrg wanted. The rest was superfluous.

But this could go on like the Monty Python Cheese Shop sketch.

Trevor

Phew I'm glad you knew that then

I see now that it was one of those rehetetorical jobbies

Yes your first post did answer the question though ntrg did seem to take you up on the offer of playing with the body element.

Of course an image could be tiled across the html element.

This does have the feel of a Python sketch, lets see how far we can take it, never know we could start a sketch show for coders.

Hugo.

I'll have spam, spam, spam, spam, eggs and spam.

Thereby making my Divitis article even better