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How do i Center website both horizontally and vertically in dreamweaver?
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There was a thread about this just the other day, but since I'm too lazy to search for it, I'm just going to post one way of doing it... 
Mind you this uses tables for layout, which is frowned upon, but it works and validates, which is most important to me:
Mind you this uses tables for layout, which is frowned upon, but it works and validates, which is most important to me:
HTML:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
html, body { height: 100%; padding: 0; margin: 0; }
table { text-align: center; height: 100%; width: 100%; border: 0; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<!-- Place contents here for absolute centering -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Hey old thread...is this still the most useful way of centering a site vertically?
http://waxpad.com/waxpadarticles/vcexample.html
I'm a newb and just trying on my site...
http://waxpad.com/waxpadarticles/vcexample.html
I'm a newb and just trying on my site...
I just quickly read of the previous posts, not links or anything.
But if this is something you are looking for it is fairly easy.
All you need to do:
First, get the harder vertical out the way - if you know the height you want the main thing to be, then its pretty easy. Lets say the main box to be in the middle of the screen is 500px X 300px.
You need to create a div, say 'horizon' that is 50% from the top, and 100% wide with and absolute position. Then create another div in that is 50% left, and in this case has margin-left set to -250px and margin-top set to -150px.
This should work, you are restricted to a set hight and width thought. Also make sure you don't use absolute positioning unless you have to.
But if this is something you are looking for it is fairly easy.
All you need to do:
First, get the harder vertical out the way - if you know the height you want the main thing to be, then its pretty easy. Lets say the main box to be in the middle of the screen is 500px X 300px.
You need to create a div, say 'horizon' that is 50% from the top, and 100% wide with and absolute position. Then create another div in that is 50% left, and in this case has margin-left set to -250px and margin-top set to -150px.
This should work, you are restricted to a set hight and width thought. Also make sure you don't use absolute positioning unless you have to.