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

Reuven Kishon
Reuven Kishon
5,270 Points
Posted by Reuven Kishon
Reuven Kishon
5,270 Points

Unsuccessful in centering elements within the div ID wrapper

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here, I've checked and re-checked my code, as well as refreshed the webpage. I'm not sure how to include my code, other than to copy paste, so here goes. Hope it's not too messy...

INDEX.HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Reuven Kishon | Designer</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css"> </head> <body> <header> <a href="index.html"> <h1>Reuven Kishon</h1> <h2>Designer</h2> </a> <nav> <ul> <li><a href="index.html">Portfolio</a></li> <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li> <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li> </ul> </nav> </header> <div id="wrapper"> <section> <ul> <li> <a href="img/numbers-01.jpg"> <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt=""> <p>Expirementation with texture and color.</p> </a>
</li> <li> <a href="img/numbers-02.jpg"> <img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt=""> <p>Playing with blending modes in Photoshop.</p> </a>
</li> <li> <a href="img/numbers-06.jpg"> <img src="img/numbers-06.jpg" alt=""> <p>Trying to create an 80's style of glows.</p> </a>
</li> <li> <a href="img/numbers-09.jpg"> <img src="img/numbers-09.jpg" alt=""> <p>Drips created using Photoshop brushes.</p> </a>
</li> <li> <a href="img/numbers-12.jpg"> <img src="img/numbers-12.jpg" alt=""> <p>Creating shapes using repetition.</p> </a>
</li> </ul> </section> <footer> <a href="http://twitter.com/nickrp"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo"></a> <a href="http://facebook.com/nickpettit"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook Logo"></a> <p>Ā© 2016 Reuven Kishon.</p> </footer> </div> </body>
</html>

MAIN.CSS

a { text-decoration: none; }

wrapper {

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

2 Answers

Thomas Fildes
Thomas Fildes
22,687 Points
Thomas Fildes
Thomas Fildes
22,687 Points

Hi Reuven,

Perhaps the problem is the wrapper selector in your main.css file should have a '#' in front of it because of it being an ID type selector. Here is the code below to explain further:

#wrapper {
   max-width: 940px;
   margin: 0 auto;
}

Hope this helps.

Reuven Kishon
Reuven Kishon
5,270 Points
Reuven Kishon
Reuven Kishon
5,270 Points

Thomas Fildes

Thanks, but it seems that when I copy/pasted my code, it didn't carry over the '#' symbol. It's there...

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points

:point_right: The auto margin centers the div element but not its contents.

If you're trying to get the contents centered, you'll also need to add this to your #wrapper rule:

  text-align: center;

In future, be sure to format your code using the info in the Markdown Cheatsheet pop-up below. :arrow_heading_down:

Reuven Kishon
Reuven Kishon
5,270 Points
Reuven Kishon
Reuven Kishon
5,270 Points

I suppose I didn't word the title of my post correctly. What I meant to say is that when following along with the instructor, I was not able to get the expected webpage preview. I'm looking to see what I did wrong. After some further investigation it boiled down to an indentation issue. Thanks for the help anyway!

Also, thanks for the tip re: Markdown Cheatsheet.