How to center my entire webpage including the background - css

i want the part with the border to be centered on all screen resoultions. is this possible with the margin-top and margin-bottom properties?
HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Simple Site</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="body">
<img src="2.png" width="1000" height="100" />
<center>
<ul class="navbar">
<li>Home</li><li>About</li><li>Contact</li><li>Services</li><li>Biography</li>
</ul>
</center>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
CSS:
#charset "utf-8";
html {
text-align: center
}
#container {
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
margin-top:50 auto;
margin-bottom:50 auto;
width:960px;
background-color:#666666;
}
#body {
background-color:#666666;
width:1000px;
height:1000px;
border:3px solid #FFFFFF;
margin-top:50px auto;
}
.navbar {
margin:0px;
background-color:#66FF33;
text-align:center;
list-style:none;
border-bottom:none;
padding-left:0px;
}
ul.navbar li {
width:20%;
display:inline-block;
}
ul.navbar a {
display:block;
width:100%;
margin:0px;
padding:10px 0px;
text-decoration:none;
}
ul.navbar a:hover {
background-color:#33FFD7;
}
body {
background-color:#333333;
}

Try:
#container{
width:960px;
margin:0 auto;
/*more CSS*/
}
You can change 0 to whatever, like 50px. Your image width is larger than 960px though.
Maybe you want something like this:
var pre = onload; // window is implicit
onload = function(){ // I personally don't indent directly inside the onload
if(pre)pre(); // execute old window.onload if it existed
var doc = document, IE = parseFloat(navigator.appVersion.split('MSIE')[1]);
function E(e){
return doc.getElementById(e);
}
function alignTop(id){
var e = E(id), w, h;
if(IE){
h = parseInt(e.currentStyle.height);
}
else{
h = parseInt(getComputedStyle(e).getPropertyValue('height'));
}
w = innerHeight || doc.documentElement.clientHeight || doc.body.clientHeight;
e.style.marginTop = w/2-h/2+'px';
}
alignTop('container');
}
You should put your script tag in the head so the body is defined in some older Browsers. I would use external JavaScript, so it's cached, like:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en' lang='en'>
<head>
<title>Your Title Here</title>
<meta http-equiv='content-type' content='text/html;charset=utf-8' />
<meta name='keywords' content='some words to help SEO here' />
<style type='text/css'>
#import 'common.css'; #import 'thisPage.css';
</style>
<script type='text/javascript' scr='someName.js'></script>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<div id='container'>Example Only</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
To see a working model, visit http://jsfiddle.net/MeMQz/2/ .

i know that centers it but i want the top to be equal to the bottom by centering the whole page.not just left and right – HeyItsProdigy
Based on your comment above I guess you are trying to make the height of the content is 100% equal based on the height of the browser. You can use this trick:
html, body{
height: 100%;
}
#container{
display: block;
height: 100%;
}
Have a look at the result here http://jsfiddle.net/qiqiabaziz/GB4W2/1/

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Padding in CSS not consistent in Web vs. Mobile

I have the following html code for a page:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Buy, Sell Anywhere!</title>
<?php
$bgimglist = array(
"1419761599136.jpg",
"123.jpg",
"6Edng.jpg",
"second-hand-smoke-2-390x285.jpg",
"AllSmoke.jpg",
"best-air-purifier-for-smoke.jpg",
"HTB1pZmkG.jpg",
"images.jpg",
"index.jpg",
"SmokerBearded.jpg",
"sygareta.jpg"
);
$bgimg = $bgimglist[array_rand($bgimglist)];
?>
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-image: url(images/<?php echo $bgimg;?>);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-size:cover;
}
</style>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css" media="all">
</head>
<body>
<script language="JavaScript">
... removed...
</script>
<div id="top">
<div class="ad">
<?php include 'Ad728x90.inc';?>
</div>
<div id="TC">
<p>By using this site, you agree to the terms and conditions. You also agree that your government, local or national permits you to engage in activities relating to... <removed>...</p>
<p>You must be at least 18 years to use this site, regardless of your local laws. We do not encourage children to be associated in any way with this site.</p>
</div>
<div id="main">
And I have the following CSS:
.large {
font-size:30px;
}
body {
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
#top {
font-size:300%;
font-weight:bold;
text-align:center;
padding:19px 0 6px 0;
}
.ad {
margin:auto;
padding:10px;
text-align:center;
}
.links a{
color:#FFF;
text-decoration:none!important;
}
#TC {
margin:auto;
width:90%;
height: 50px;
text-align:center;
font-size:12px;
background-color:#F0F0F0;
padding:12px;
}
#main {
margin:auto;
width:90%;
height: 500px;
text-align:center;
font-size:12px;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
padding: 10px;
}
Most of the CSS may not be relevant, but I have included it for completeness. The problem is that the DIV with the id "TC" appears to have bottom padding on the web using Firefox, Chrome and IE; but not on my mobile using Chrome. In fact, some text is cutoff, so it appears to have a negative padding!
Slightly troubling (maybe this is a different issue) is that the padding on top looks bigger than the padding at the bottom on all browsers, but using Inspect Element in Firefox, the Box Model shows a 10px border for bottom and top.
Any inputs appreciated as always.
It's doing that on smaller screens because the content is overflowing the #TC div,
you can make that div bigger, or use overflow: hidden, or overfow-y: scroll in your css.
For demonstration purposes I have included overflow-y: scroll
#TC {
margin:auto;
width:90%;
height: 60px;
text-align:center;
font-size:12px;
background-color:#F0F0F0;
padding:12px;
overflow-y:scroll;
}
CODEPEN DEMO

how to make div beside div

HTML
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title> This is my site </title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="StyleSheet.css">
</head>
<body>
<div id="bigger">
<div id="header">
<div id="adv">
</div>
<div id="flag">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
CSS
#bigger
{
height:1280px;
width:880px;
margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;
position:absolute
}
#header
{
background-color:Blue;
height:10%;
width:100%;
position:absolute
}
#adv
{
background-color:Yellow;
height:100%;
width:35%
}
#flag
{
background-color:Red;
height:100%;
width:65%;
float:right
}
How do you make the flag div appear beside the adv div inside the header div?
#adv needs float:left, so it floats to the left (and #flag floats to the right, next to it, because of float: right).
try this
#header
{
background-color:Blue;
height:10%;
width:100%;
position:relative
}
#flag
{
background-color:Red;
height:100%;
width:65%;
position:absolute;
top:0;
right:0;
}
Try this:
Normally: (somebody please correct me if I'm wrong on this):
Widths and heights should be set in pixel height-width from the beginning instead of percentages because the code will be easier to work with later. Also, I'm sure both elements should float left because then the code will be again, easier to work with and will follow better code conventions. Also, I added margins for easier viewing. You can always delete them if you wish. Code:
HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title> This is my site </title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="example1.css">
</head>
<body>
<div id="bigger">
<div id="header">
<div id="adv">
</div>
<div id="flag">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
CSS:
#bigger
{
height:1280px;
width:880px;
margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;
position:absolute
}
#header
{
background-color:Blue;
height:90px;
width:1290px;
overflow: hidden;
}
#adv
{
background-color:Yellow;
height:80px;
width:840px;
margin: 5px;
float: left;
}
#flag
{
background-color:Red;
height:80px;
width:420px;
margin: 5px;
float:left;
}

Make div background color span entire width

What I'm trying to do is have a bootstrap like navbar where the actual navbar is around 960px in the center but have the background color span the entire width of the window.
However, when the window is less than 960px in width, and I scroll, the background doesn't go all the way to the end.
Is it possible to make this happen without having custom rules for max-width(960px)?
<!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>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Test Page</title>
<style type="text/css">
#container {
width: 960px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#nav {
height: 33px;
background-color: #cfcfcf;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="nav">
<div id="container">
test
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Thanks in advance!
Edit: Oops. Had an extra in there, though that wasn't the issue.
The height has to be in the inner div (#container).
try
#nav { background-color: #cfcfcf; }
#container {
height:33px;
width:960px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
see http://jsfiddle.net/wYGLj/
You need your nav div to span the entire page.
#nav { width:100%; }
will work in this case.
Your CSS is working as it should. So if you want it to extent the whole length of the screen, create a wrapper to handle that grey element. Like this.
<!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>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Test Page</title>
<style type="text/css">
#wrapper {
width: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
background-color: #cfcfcf;
}
#container {
width: 960px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#nav {
height: 33px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="nav">
<div id="container">
test
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I added
body {
min-width:960px;
}
which seemed to fix the problem.

position:absolute div vanishes within position:relative

I am relatively new to CSS .And I am facing the following problem in my page lay out .
I have looked at other posts but could not find an answer . The problem is when I specify
position:absolute within #logo #logoimg it does not load . However If I remove
position:absolute #logoimg is loaded correctly . I am trying to learn how to position divs by
creating absolute divs within relative divs .
My html
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>New Web Project</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" charset="utf-8"/>
</head>
<body>
<div id = "wrapper">
<div id = "header"> <img src="images/banner.png" /> </div>
<div id = "content">
<div id="logo">
<div id="logoimg" > czcz </div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
My CSS
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#header {
background: url('images/banner_tile.jpg') ;
height: 96px;
width: 100% ;
}
#header img {
display:block;
margin: auto ;
}
#content img {
display:block;
margin: auto ;
}
#content {
/*overflow:auto ;*/
background: url('images/body_tile.png') ;
height: 100% ;
width: 100% ;
}
#logo { position:relative; height: 100px ; }
#logo #logoimg {
position:absolute ;
top:300px ;
left:700px ;
width:398px ;
height:200px ;
background: url('images/body_sprite.png');
z-index: 1;
}
A tidy fiddle with monkeys for you to play with: http://jsfiddle.net/TjQLf/

Making a site with 3 div with center content and 2 "buffers" to fill the reminig horizontal space

I am making a css site and I want to look like that:
3 vertical divs. LEFT CENTER RIGHT. In the center div is the site content, and I want the left and right div to fill the space between the center and the browser borders.
Here is my code.
#container
{
width:100%;
background-color:#000;
}
.center
{
width:1000px;
height:400px;
background-color:#F90;
margin: 0px auto;
overflow: auto;
}
.spacer-left
{
width:100%;
height:400px;
background-color:#F90;
float:left;
}
.spacer-right
{ width:100%;
height:400px;
background-color:#F90;
}
And here is the HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1251" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<link href="css.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div class="spacer-left"></div>
<div class="center" style="background-color:#F30;"></div>
<div class="spacer-right"></div>
<div style="clear:both"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I've try with 2 divs and there was no problem. The left with float:left and width in pixels and right one with 100% width without float. It worked. But how to make it with 3 divs. Thanks in advance!
Thank you for the help Sebastian but I figured out other way.
This is how the code looks now and it works.
#container
{
width:1000px;
background-color:#000;
margin:0 auto;
}
.center
{
width:100%;
height:400px;
background-color:#F90;
margin: 0px auto;
overflow: auto;
}
.spacer
{
width:50%;
height:400px;
background-color:#F90;
float:left;
}
.head_warp
{
width:100%;
display:block;
height:400px;
margin:0 auto;
padding:0;
position:absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
text-align:center;
z-index:-9999;
}
and the HTML
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1251" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<link href="css.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="head_warp">
<div class="spacer"></div>
<div class="spacer" style="background-color:#F06"></div>
</div>
<div id="container">
<div class="center" style="background-color:#F30;"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Thank you for the help one again. I will write here again if there is a problem with my solution.
Update: a different alternative to the answer below, using three divs and z-index.
http://jsfiddle.net/SebastianPataneMasuelli/mzvB4/1/
if you are trying to make a site with the content in the center div, you can replicate that layout using simply:
<body>
<div class="center">center</div>
</body>
with the css:
html {height: 100%; }
.center { width:750px; margin: 30px auto; height: 100%; }
play with it here: http://jsfiddle.net/SebastianPataneMasuelli/mzvB4/
from the class names .spacer_left and .spacer_right i'm assuming that those divs are empty spacers and not necessary.
this is a good resource for base css layouts: http://www.csseasy.com/

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