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CSS

Posted by Manu Awasthi
Manu Awasthi
Courses Plus Student 185 Points

Center content on the page

How to center align content of a web page and fix a layout for all the browsers.

Various elements float around the page, but nothing in right direction , or as desired. So how to have a better control on layout, i.e. center, left, right of <div> tag. The layout varies when user changes resolution.

2 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Here's a very basic demo, it centers content vertically and horizontally in a container, even for dynamically generated content which you don't the height of.

http://codepen.io/JamesBarnett/full/nEJDx

It uses this technique: http://www.jakpsatweb.cz/css/css-vertical-center-solution.html

Lucas Andersson
Lucas Andersson
1,614 Points
Lucas Andersson
Lucas Andersson
1,614 Points

You can use this: http://foundation.zurb.com