with:100% only way to control centering button? - css

Having an issue I don't understand. The only way I've been able to center a button on my page perfectly across all devices is if I apply a width: 100% to it.
Issue with this however, is it then makes a sprawling button, way too wide. I'd like to cut it down. The problem is, anytime I get rid of the width: 100% in any way, it makes the perfect button position go haywire.
Any thoughts on how I can have my button centered, but also not super wide and sprawled out. Thank you. -Wilson
link to site: http://www.wilsonschlamme.com/test3.html?
CSS:
img {
width:100%;
max-width:500px;
max-height:340px;
box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px grey;
border-style: groove;
border-width: 1px;
position: absolute;
top: 107px;
}
button {
color: #900;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 150%;
text-transform: uppercase;
width: 100%;
position: relative;
top: 600px;
}
#ShowText{
width: 800px; /* change to your preferences */
overflow:hidden; /* older browsers */
position: absolute;
margin-top: 500px;
text-align: center;
margin-left: -140px;
font-size: 18px;
font-family: vendetta, serif;
line-height: 25px;
}
h1{
position: absolute;
top: 5px;
font-size: 250%;
width: 800px; /* change to your preferences */
overflow:hidden; /* older browsers */
font-family: hobeaux-rococeaux-sherman, sans-serif;
}
#wrapper {
width: 500px;
margin: 0 auto;
}

take a look at this site there's a complete guide to centering a div.
http://www.tipue.com/blog/center-a-div/

I don't know what's your base using absolute positioning for mostly of your element, but to answer your issue, give text-align:center; to #wrapper, then give text-align:left for each of #wrapper children, except the button.

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https://abload.de/img/cssiee7s.jpg
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Ok so there is a couple of things that are going on in your css.
White lines
For your content div, I would use a width of 100% for mobile devices now, as you scale to tablets and desktops you can change to a more fixed or fluid width. I would also remove the border bottom property. This is not fully extending to the width of the content box and I am unsure if it has to do with the border-sizing property you are using. I would also apply the border-sizing this way so it is applied to every element in your html
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
Orange border - this is caused by the :focus pseudo css property of the button you are using, you can remove it this way
button:focus {
outline: none;
}
CSS Normalize or CSS Reset - consider using one of these stylesheets in your website. They help you rendering all elements more consistently through all browsers. This will save you the time of remove the :focus property, like I mentioned above in any project moving forward. Most popular CSS frameworks utilize this to normalize basic styles.
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Equal line height with varying border width (border-box)

In this simplified example I have 4 circles, each with varying border-width and I am trying to maintain equal line height in each to keep them horizontally aligned.
However the border width seems to effect the line height (despite being technically outside the box?)
Is there anyway to solve this without manually adjusting each line-height?
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You can remove the line-height, use display:table-cell instead, and add vertical-align:middle; to your stat class.
jsFiddle example
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Your css works fine all you have to do is remove some from top section
* {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/techsin/vcJ3G/15/
Came across this and thought myself how is it possible to do it without using table-cell, my solution probably not the best, but I just decide to share it anyway.
http://codepen.io/svdovichenko/pen/rObzqM?editors=110
adding <span>1</span> (can use class inside spam didn't use for this example)
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position: relative;
}
and
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I having difficulties setting my footer properly. I have a Bottom navigation bar as part of my footer which is working fine(color:#7A7A7A). The issue is with the copy right information that follows. It has an address and phone number. I am wanting that this side of the footer to have a black bakcground(#000). This part is labeled in the css under copyRight which i am not get any results. Any Ideas of what may be wrong?
Here is my Live EXAMPLE.
Thank you
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You're floating the contents of #copyRight so it needs to be floated in order to contain them properly. Add this to #copyRight:
float: left;
width: 100%;
Read Brilliand detailed explanation below
Add overflow:hidden in #copyRight
So your CSS should look like this:
#copyRight{
background:#000;
color: #FFF;
font-size: 75%;
bottom: 0;
overflow:hidden
}
The problem you are having is that most elements, including divs, do not by default expand to contain floating elements. Since everything within copyRight is floating, it behaves as though it were empty, and shrinks to nothing.
There are many ways to make an element expand to contain floating elements. My personal favorite is to set overflow to just about anything - hidden being the most common.
#copyRight{
overflow: hidden;
}
Another way is to make the containing element float too, though it's then liable to cause the same problem with the element trying to contain it. Also, floating causes shrinkwrapping, so you have to set an explicit width:
#copyRight{
float: left;
width: 100%;
}
A similar result can be achieved using various display declarations, such as display: inline-block. This avoids propagating the problem to the parent element:
#copyRight{
display: inline-block;
width: 100%;
}
Apparently back in 2004 it was considered a wonderful new idea to solve such a problem by inserting a clearing element with the :after pseudo-class instead of the older method of adding a <div style="clear:both;"></div>. Those tricks would also solve your problem, though clearing floats and containing them are not quite the same thing.

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Try setting the containing element's z-index and position:
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