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Wadson Fleurigene
493 PointsUsing Margin to Center the Wrapper Text?
Still not understand the question "Select the Wrapper Element, and then center it on the page."
The correct answer was:
```#wrapper { margin: 0 auto; }
How does this center? I didn't use the attribute center?
2 Answers
Joseph Wachira
17,972 Points"margin: 0 auto;" means that the top and bottom margins will be zero. The auto tells the browser to split up the horizontal space evenly between the left and right margins thus resulting to a centered wrapper.
The center attribute is used for centering text.
Refer to this doc → centering things
Hope that helps.
Happy learning :)
Ricky Catron
13,023 PointsThe word auto puts a equal margin on both sides of whatever wrapper is connected to. This effectively moves the element to the middle of the page. The atribute center only works for text-align if instead you wanted to center a picture or div you would use this.