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Jan 20.2007

I want to have my page look similier to this page, meaning everything is centered, and the space that isn’t not filled up with content is filled with a gradient on either side, and adjusts automatically for monitor size/resolution. I can’t figure out how to do it, if my code would be helpful I’ll post it and a link to my site, but just a general idea of how this is done would be nice. Right now my code is all wrapped in a container center it using CSS.

[URL=”http://www.motortopia.com/main/bikes”]http://www.motortopia.com/main/bikes[/URL]

And yes, my code is validated.

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@felgallJan 20.2007 — That page looks to be a mess with everything all over the place certainly not centered. I suppose they only bothered checking it in Internet Exploder and not in any modern web browsers.

  • 1. Make sure you have a doctype as the first tag in your page so as to put IE into standards mode where it at least tries to follow some of the standards.


    • To align text elements to the centre of the block that contains them use [b]text-align:center[/b]

    To align blocks to the centre you give them a width and set [b]margin:0 auto[/b]

    To set up a colour gradient you use a background image.
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    @blutterauthorJan 20.2007 — I think you misuderstood what I meant about the page I referanced. When I say everything is centered I mean the GRAY colored block is centered between the two black gradient side. And it works perfectly fine in both firefox and IE.
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    @CentauriJan 21.2007 — Apart from looking centred to me in FF, the points felgall raises apply to the page in question.

    Looking at the site's code will show the content in a div #wrapper. A look at the css shows [CODE]#wrapper{ border:1px solid transparent; border-bottom:none; border-top:none; margin:0 auto 1.33em auto; position:relative; width:947px}[/CODE] the div is set a width of 947px, and the auto margin does the centre.

    The "two black gradient side" is simply the background graphic applied to the body - graphic is here.

    Cheers

    Graeme
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