Center a div tag

[rockhiker]

Hi

The following div tag displays with a border. However, I want it to display center on the page.

Any ideas welcome
thanks

jim

<div align="center" style=" width: 70%; border: 2px solid #4f7295 ">test</div>

[Al Sparber- PVII]

<div style="margin: 0 15%;">
<div style="border: 2px solid #4f7295 ">test</div>
</div>

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[rockhiker]

Thanks. It worked.

I'll try Al's method also.

jim

[rockhiker]

Thanks for the reply.

It worked. Why is the bluerobot method unstable?

[Bridgetown Ben webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

>Hi Ben,

>The method I gave will work fine in IE5x on PC. Based on the original

poster's code, we are dealing with a static DIV. The bluerobot techniques
are rather unstable, in my opinion.

Al

I don't quite understand the Bluerobot.com claim(s) about MSIE5.x/Win and so if you could further explain why it is unstable I'd really appreciate it.

Your method (using static DIV) works without any problems? Is the other method only for 'position: absolute;'? So if I'm using a '%' as the width is it better to use the method you described? What if I'm declaring a specific 'width' as opposed to a '%' for that value?

Thanks for any input.

[Josh]

I think bluerobot's method is longer, which may be prone to error, hence
Al's comment. But with that said, the bluerobot method works well
when you want your div a fixed width and centered, whereas Al's more
standard method would leave the div as variable at 70% of the page width.

Different methods for different goals, that's all. Al's method doesn't
need to be hacked, whereas bluerobot uses a simple hack to make the div
center up correctly for IE5.5.

- Josh