How to centre align a Div

[neilkw]

Just learning the div tag and all I need to do is centre align it. Played around with left and right position but I'm a beginner and all i need is to center align it!

Show me how silly I'm being, pease.

Thanks.
here's my div

<div id=layer1 style="position:absolute; top:20; left:30%; width:300px; height:321px; z-index:1; padding:5px; border: #000000 2px solid; background-color:#6666ff;">
Content goes here (images, text) </div>

[souravsaha86]

i think u wanted to put the text stuffs in centre. did i get u? if so then for that the stuff i gess is quite simple.
just put
<center>
.........
..........watever u want in center here...........
.........
</center>


and it should come in centre. was that tough? lollllllllllllll

[neilkw]

Hi and thanks for your reply. I do seem to have grasped alignment of text within the div but I want to have my actual div layer centre aligned. I need it to move when the page is resized, so that it remains in the middle whatever the screen size is.

[neilkw]

This seems to have solved my problem

http://www.bluerobot.com/web/css/center1.html

[djr33]

Misconception: <center>...</center> tags.... it's not really unique... but rather a shortcut for:
<div align="center">...</div>

If you want the actual layer to be alinged, you'll have to do more than that, 'cause that affects inside. You could do:

<div align="center">
<div>
(this div is centered)
</div>
</div>

Depends. You said you solved it. Hopefully this'll make it make more sense :)

[neilkw]

cheers for your reply.

I have achieved my desired placement by assigning the placement attributes via the style sheet. float left/right etc. Then assigning the div into the css.