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

Posted by chris antonoudiou
chris antonoudiou
288 Points

my workspace does not seem to recognise the css auto attribute just highlights it in red not in auto correct also

a { text-decoration: none; }

wrapper {

max-width: 940px; margin 0 auto; }

4 Answers

Brian Kelly
Brian Kelly
23,477 Points

Add a ":" after "margin" and try again. It thinks that "0 auto" is part of your margin selector.

chris antonoudiou
chris antonoudiou
288 Points

thank you problem solved!!

Joe Consterdine
Joe Consterdine
13,965 Points
Joe Consterdine
Joe Consterdine
13,965 Points

Hi Chris,

I take it 'wrapper' is meant to be a class? or ID?

Where is the '.' or '#' before it to indicate it's one of those two?

chris antonoudiou
chris antonoudiou
288 Points
chris antonoudiou
chris antonoudiou
288 Points

I think its an id i have it as #wrapper

Joe Consterdine
Joe Consterdine
13,965 Points
Joe Consterdine
Joe Consterdine
13,965 Points

Hi Chris,

can you please take a screenshot of what you're looking at?

then upload it here:

http://postimage.org/

and post it so I can see.

Thanks

chris antonoudiou
chris antonoudiou
288 Points

thanks for your help, managed to solve it