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HTML How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets Style the Basic Elements

Parker Arbuthnot
Parker Arbuthnot
1,969 Points
Posted by Parker Arbuthnot
Parker Arbuthnot
1,969 Points

What does the "auto" value do?

I am confused to what the auto value does, in relation to the margin tag.

1 Answer

György Varga
György Varga
19,198 Points
György Varga
György Varga
19,198 Points

Hi!

You can set the margin property to auto to horizontally center the element within its container.

Hope this helps!