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Start your free trialMatt Ramsby
5,932 Pointscentering -- does it use the 'margin' property? I thought it was "text-align: center;".
Challenge Task 2 of 3
Select the ID wrapper, set it to a max width of 940 pixels, and then center it on the page using the margin property.
#wrapper {
max-width: 940px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Nick Pettit | Designer</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
</head>
<body>
<header>
<a href="index.html" id="logo">
<h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
<h2>Designer</h2>
</a>
<nav>
<ul>
<li><a href="index.html" class="selected">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>Experimentation with color and texture.</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>
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<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>
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<p>© 2014 Nick Pettit.</p>
</footer>
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</body>
</html>
2 Answers
Matt Ramsby
5,932 PointsOk - thanks. That's helpful. But I'm still not able to give the correct answer ... I wrote :
wrapper {
max-width: 940px; margin: 0 auto; } AND
wrapper {
max-width: 940px; text-align: center; } BUT neither one is correct ... so I'm at a loss.
Matt Ramsby
5,932 PointsActually I did have the hashtags before the wrapper in both attempts - it got cut off when I pasted it here.
Kyle Johnson
33,528 PointsHi Matt,
I just put this in the challenge and it works but it looks like that is what you had to begin with.
a {
text-decoration: none;
}
#wrapper {
max-width: 940px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
As for you confusion with centering.. check out this site: Centering in CSS: A Complete Guide. There are many ways to center an element based on the display
type of the element. Sometimes you might even need to set the parent element to a certain display in order to get use from the text-align
property.
Tamas Gonda
7,332 PointsTamas Gonda
7,332 PointsThe margin: 0 auto aligns the whole div to the center of the parent element meanwhile text-align:center only centers the content itself. I made this quick example to show what do I mean. https://codepen.io/Gonduska/pen/WOJrdG