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From: Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 15 Jun 2010 18:01 coltrane wrote: > thanks, adding margin:auto resulted in centered text. Strange the book > I have only has the width and the text-align set. I even downloaded > their examples and it also didn't work correctly. > > http://www.jprokassociates.com/cssexamples/pagewithmargin.html > http://www.jprokassociates.com/cssexamples/pagewithoutmargin.html Don't be dragged into using the HTML comment markers those pages have in the CSS. They're left over from Netscape 3 ... -- -bts -Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul
From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn on 15 Jun 2010 18:12 coltrane wrote: > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: >> coltrane wrote: >>> [...] Actually width doesn't seem to have any effect >>> whether I use pixels or percent. The only way to get the text to not >>> take up the entire width of the browser is by specifying a margin. >>> It does seem that the width should do it but it doesn't. >> >> It is the reverse here: margin-*: auto without setting the width does not >> center the block. Probably you are setting the width of the wrong >> element, or your markup or CSS is syntactically wrong. >> >> <http://validator.w3.org/> >> <http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/> > > thanks, adding margin:auto resulted in centered text. You probably don't want `margin: auto' which sets all margins to automatic width, but margin: … auto. The ellipsis would be one value to set the top and bottom margins alike. > Strange the book I have only has the width and the text-align set. There are many bad books. Ask for a refund, if centering is what they wanted to show. > I even downloaded their examples and it also didn't work correctly. > > http://www.jprokassociates.com/cssexamples/pagewithmargin.html > http://www.jprokassociates.com/cssexamples/pagewithoutmargin.html Is that your code or theirs? It has a number of problems: It is not Valid, and the stylesheet is commented out (which really means that in XHTML). Please trim your quotes to the relevant minimum. PointedEars -- Danny Goodman's books are out of date and teach practices that are positively harmful for cross-browser scripting. -- Richard Cornford, cljs, <cife6q$253$1$8300dec7(a)news.demon.co.uk> (2004)
From: coltrane on 15 Jun 2010 18:16 thanks
From: coltrane on 15 Jun 2010 18:28 while I'm here, can you recommend a book? I have been using oreilly's cookbook and the first edition of the definitive guide which I guess I should get the latest edition.
From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn on 15 Jun 2010 18:53
coltrane wrote: > while I'm here, can you recommend a book? No, sorry, the Web sufficed for me to date. > I have been using oreilly's cookbook and the first edition of the > definitive guide which I guess I should get the latest edition. Perhaps. Who is the author (O'Reilly is only the publisher)? PointedEars -- Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network. -- Tim Berners-Lee |