help with centering content in DIV - HTML Forums

mickcalcara · 11-04-2009, 05:48 PM

Please help me with the following. This is not a problem in Firefox; only in IE. I am having trouble centering one DIV with a DIV to the left of the centered DIV. The DIV that is blue I would like centered according to the browser width and the red DIV I would like the same vertically as the blue DIV only left justified. In Firefox this works correctly the way I would expect. In IE the left justified div appears "pushes" the DIV ( in blue ) that I want centered further to the right; making it un-centered. thanks for any assistance.

Code:

<div width="100%">
			<div align = "left" style="width:200px;float:left;background-color:#ff0000;">
						<p style="font-size: 8pt;">This needs to be left justified........</p>
						<p style="font-size: 8pt;">This needs to be left justified........</p>
						<p style="font-size: 8pt;">This needs to be left justified........</p>
			</div>
		 <div align="center" style="background-color:#00ff00;">
				<div style="width: 500px;background-color:#0000ff;">
					<p style="font-size: 8pt;">this needs to be centered.................................................................................. </p>
					<p style="font-size: 8pt;">this needs to be centered.................................................................................. </p>
					<p style="font-size: 8pt;">this needs to be centered.................................................................................. </p>
					<p style="font-size: 8pt;">this needs to be centered </p>
				</div>
		</div>

Code_worm · 11-04-2009, 08:01 PM

I think you are using the wrong syntax...
instead of align = centre
it should be

HTML Code:

text-align:center;

if that doesn't work for alignin text within a div i suggest trying to use the same code but make a class for the paragraph tag <p> and align the text within that tag
like this...

HTML Code:

<p style="font-size: 8pt;text-align:centre;">

Hope this helps