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Re: Why is my menu off-center?

__/ [Pierre Jelenc] on Tuesday 20 September 2005 00:30 \__

> 
> The demo page at http://www.robschwimmer.com/tmp/test.html has a menu at
> the bottom, which should be centered 50 pixels from both left and right
> edges. As the dotted green line around the enclosing div indicates, it is
> --in Mozilla at least-- actually pushed to the right.
> 
> Both HTML and CSS validate fine (there are some warnings on the CSS having
> to do with color, but that's deliberate for the way I set the text
> colors.)
> 
> Any idea what's happening?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Pierre


There is a way of forcing divs to lie in the centre using some negative
values, but I could not find a reference. What you are trying to do will
not work in the Mozilla renderer. The margin-right will be ignored. You can
either compromise and go for:

"margin-left: 50px; width: 90%;"

which in practice looks quite OK if I reside the window quite widely. Also,
consider adding two fixed-sized divs to the left and the right of your
menu. Not elegant, but does the trick



__/ [RobG] on Tuesday 20 September 2005 05:52 \__


> Get rid of the 50px margin-left/right.
> 
> [...]

This doesn't appear to be "doing the trick" in Firefox. 


Roy

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