css problem horizontally centered website

lomokev · 03-08-2005, 07:21 AM

having trouble centering a web site

what i want to precisely position elements in my site and i thought that i could put all the elements in to one div tag and make that centered. i can center it but the problem is when the browser is resized smaller that the content the site remains centered and center starts diserpering off the left edge. what i want it to do once resized smaller is for a horizontal scroll bar to appear and for content not to disappear on the left edge of the screen. i have half achieved this but now my content dose not stay in the main div
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/programming/74025-css-problem-horizontally-centered-website.html

check out my example the "center1" div should appear inside the top light gray box but it dose not!
http://www.thehopeandanchor.net/nypd/layertest.htm

the code:

<!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" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>redeem file</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body>

<div id="center1">
<div id="insidebit">center1</div>
</div>

<div id="center2">
<div id="insidebit">center2</div>
</div>

</body>
</html>

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lomokev New Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: brighton, uk Posts: 18	css problem horizontally centered website having trouble centering a web site what i want to precisely position elements in my site and i thought that i could put all the elements in to one div tag and make that centered. i can center it but the problem is when the browser is resized smaller that the content the site remains centered and center starts diserpering off the left edge. what i want it to do once resized smaller is for a horizontal scroll bar to appear and for content not to disappear on the left edge of the screen. i have half achieved this but now my content dose not stay in the main div ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/programming/74025-css-problem-horizontally-centered-website.html check out my example the "center1" div should appear inside the top light gray box but it dose not! http://www.thehopeandanchor.net/nypd/layertest.htm the code: <!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" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <title>redeem file</title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- div#center1 { /position:absolute;/ margin:0px auto; top:10px; width:600px; height:47px; background-color: #cccccc; } div#center2 { position:absolute; left: 50%; margin-left: -300px; top:80px; width:600px; height:47px; background-color: #cccccc; } div#insidebit { position:absolute; left:50px; top:10px; width:64px; height:26px; background-color: #eeeeee; } --> </style> </head> <body> <div id="center1"> <div id="insidebit">center1</div> </div> <div id="center2"> <div id="insidebit">center2</div> </div> </body> </html>

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