setting width to a value, margin-left to auto, and margin-right to auto centers a static block : position static « Layout « HTML / CSS






setting width to a value, margin-left to auto, and margin-right to auto centers a static block

 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
.section{
  position: static;
  width: 600px;
  height: 600px;
  background: gray;
}

*.static {
  position: static;
  background: yellow;
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
  width: 200px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<div class="section">
  <div class="static">static</div> 
</div> 

</body>
</html> 

 








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