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CSS How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets Style the Basic Elements

Posted by Peter Yin
Peter Yin
Courses Plus Student 728 Points

margin centering

Hi, a bit confused on what margin really does and how I could center my wrapper with margin?

2 Answers

Reuben Varzea
Reuben Varzea
23,182 Points
Reuben Varzea
Reuben Varzea
23,182 Points

Margin is the white space around your object. So, if you were looking to center something, that "something", like wrapper, would itself need to have a size defined, and then you can assign values to the margins to center it. Keep in mind that if you don't know what the values should be for margin, there is a value you can use to cover yourself regardless of browser window size.

jake anderson
jake anderson
6,017 Points
jake anderson
jake anderson
6,017 Points

define a percentage width and height then use margin:auto; to center as shown below

.wrapper { position: relative; width: 80%; height: 60%; background: #00000; margin: auto; }