I'm no CSS expert by any means but in your css file you have
html, body { color: black; font-size: medium; font-family: Arial,
Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; margin: 0px; padding: 0px }
body { color: black; font-size: medium; font-family: Arial, Helvetica,
Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; background-image:
url(graphics/graytile.gif) }
As far as I can recall, you can shorten the second statement to
body {background-image: url(graphics graytile.gif)}
because all the other styling will be inherited from the first
statement. Repeating it might seem easier from a development
viewpoint but you make a maintenance problem in that you have the font
stack listed in more than one place so you have to repeat any changes
you might want to make. That's just extra work.
I would also add the generic sans-serif to the end of your font stack.
I am not sure about later IEs but IE6 almost certainly needed a fudge
to centre properly
You need
body { text-align:center }
and then correct your text alignment in the container div with :
container { text-align:left}
Hope that helps. Please say if that fixes your problem.
Regards
Lesley
On 9 June 2010 17:24, TriState Advantage, Kris Jacobson
<k...@tristateadvantage.com> wrote:
> I have been trying to improve my CSS. Several times I have downloaded layouts
> from layout Gala to jumpstart my web pages but then I have to take time to go
> through the layout and identify the div's and change them accordingly.
> So this time I tried to create my own CSS stylesheet. I am trying to get a
> centered page. I have a div around the page with 800px size and auto margins
> but it isn't centered.
> I did validate the css and html just to double check and they came up clean.
> I also went back to my layout gala templates and compared CSS but that didn't
> tell me anything either. So I have to be missing some attribute.
> Can you tell me what I am missing in centering this page?
> This page is just in the beginnings so I don't have a lot of content yet.
> http://www.tristateadvantage.com/woolynpurses/index.html
>
> http://www.tristateadvantage.com/woolynpurses/woolynstyles.css
>
> Thank you for any help you give me. This list has been a great help in trying
> to comprehend CSS and I still have long way to go.
> Kris J
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