centering text with css horizontally and vertically

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September 8th, 2003, 10:39 AM

heyder

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centering text with css horizontally and vertically

I've seen quite a few articles on CSS Layout Techniques and how tables are bad etc... so I thought I would give CSS another chance as far as page layout goes.

I'm simply trying to center some text on a page both horizontally and vertically. Using tables I would use the following code:

<html>
<head>
<title>center</title>
</head>
<body>
<table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="middle">center this text</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

With css ??? (this centers horizontally)

<html>
<head>
<title>center</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="center">this is centered</div>
</body>
</html>

I'm sure there has to be a simple solution but???

I found these links might be of interest

http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/11732
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public...97Nov/0147.html

September 21st, 2003, 11:14 PM

bodoni

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frankly, you might want to stick with your old reliable tables, which you may find will have more support cross-browser.

afaik there is no sure-fire, reliable way to do this with css. if anyone knows of a way, please speak up.

i think that the way that is officially recognized by the css2 spec is

Code:

.centered {
__position: absolute;
__top: 0;
__right: 0;
__bottom: 0;
__left: 0;
__width: 50%;
__height: 50%;
__margin: auto;
}

but...well, just try it across various browsers...

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