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CSS How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets Center the Wrapper

Jelger Kingma
Jelger Kingma
9,684 Points
Posted by Jelger Kingma
Jelger Kingma
9,684 Points

Instead of setting a background color to see what is happening. Use the outline property. outline: 1px dashed red;

This does not participate in the layout as a border does.

Iain Simmons
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points

Background colour does make it easier to see when things are above/below others though.