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centering AP content on page

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PatrickDavies

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Dreamweaver CS3 9.0

How do you center a whole page of absolutely positioned content on the page?

You would have thought there would be a single click to do this!

I've carefully followed instructions from other forums and it simply doesn't work!

They say enclose the content in a container then define a CSS rule with auto margins for left and right.

If anyone can provide step by step, idiot proof instructions that actually work I will be forever grateful.

Thanks

Patrick
 
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Welcome to Tek-Tips. See faq 222-2244 to get the best from these forums.

For this question:

Absolute position means absolute position. The position of the element is set relative to the viewport, not relative to any other elements. Use normal css practice to position your elements within a div, then give the div a width and set its margin to auto. If you want to position stuff within a div at some specific position try using position:relative
Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">[/URL]
<html xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"[/URL] xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
div { width:400px; height:400px; border:solid; margin:auto; }
.inabit {position:relative; left:50px; top:50px;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<p class="inabit">This is some text</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Try changing relative to absolute to see the difference.

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Thanks but can thus be applied to what I've done?

I've built a very pretty page all AP thinking I could then easily center it. Have I got to start agian?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "<html xmlns="<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body,td,th {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
body {
background-color: #000000;
}
#apDiv1 {
position:absolute;
left:7px;
top:14px;
width:807px;
height:39px;
z-index:1;
visibility: visible;
}
#apDiv2 {
position:absolute;
left:6px;
top:361px;
width:815px;
height:43px;
z-index:2;
visibility: visible;
}
#apDiv3 {
position:absolute;
left:222px;
top:62px;
width:396px;
height:28px;
z-index:3;
visibility: visible;
}
#apDiv4 {
position:absolute;
left:45px;
top:65px;
width:727px;
height:299px;
z-index:0;
visibility: visible;
}
#apDiv5 {
position:absolute;
left:308px;
top:121px;
width:174px;
height:228px;
z-index:4;
visibility: visible;
}
#apDiv6 {
position:absolute;
left:82px;
top:561px;
width:169px;
height:56px;
z-index:5;
visibility: visible;
}
#apDiv7 {
position:absolute;
left:342px;
top:561px;
width:167px;
height:50px;
z-index:6;
visibility: visible;
}
#apDiv8 {
position:absolute;
left:601px;
top:561px;
width:166px;
height:57px;
z-index:7;
visibility: visible;
}
#apDiv9 {
position:absolute;
left:248px;
top:578px;
width:95px;
height:27px;
z-index:8;
visibility: visible;
}
#apDiv10 {
position:absolute;
left:508px;
top:578px;
width:95px;
height:27px;
z-index:8;
visibility: visible;
}
#apDiv11 {
position:absolute;
left:47px;
top:467px;
width:187px;
height:70px;
z-index:9;
visibility: visible;
}
#apDiv12 {
position:absolute;
left:288px;
top:467px;
width:187px;
height:70px;
z-index:9;
visibility: visible;
}
#apDiv13 {
position:absolute;
left:69px;
top:492px;
width:151px;
height:20px;
z-index:10;
}
#apDiv14 {
position:absolute;
left:305px;
top:493px;
width:151px;
height:20px;
z-index:10;
}
#apDiv15 {
position:absolute;
left:127px;
top:408px;
width:591px;
height:43px;
z-index:11;
background-color: #000000;
}
.style2 {color: #999999}
#apDiv16 {
position:absolute;
left:525px;
top:475px;
width:273px;
height:65px;
z-index:11;
background-color: #000000;
}
.style4 {
font-size: 14px;
}
#apDiv17 {
position:absolute;
left:208px;
top:359px;
width:178px;
height:16px;
z-index:12;
}
.style5 {
font-size: 12px;
color: #999999;
}
#apDiv18 {
position:absolute;
left:484px;
top:359px;
width:92px;
height:16px;
z-index:12;
}
#container {
width: 760px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
}
-->
</style></head>

<body tracingsrc="Images/trace.png" tracingopacity="34">
<div id="container">
<div id="apDiv1"><img src="Images/TopBar.jpg" width="816" height="39" /></div>
<div id="apDiv2"><img src="Images/BottomBar.jpg" width="816" height="42" /></div>
<div id="apDiv3"><img src="Images/AnimePortaitsTitle.gif" width="397" height="28" /></div>
<div id="apDiv4"><img src="Images/TiltePicture.jpg" width="727" height="301" /></div>
<div id="apDiv5"><img src="Images/PictureInFrame.jpg" width="174" height="230" /></div>
<div id="apDiv6"><img src="Images/UploadPhotoBtn.gif" width="165" height="49" /></div>
<div id="apDiv7"><img src="Images/ArtistMakesBtn.gif" width="165" height="49" /></div>
<div id="apDiv8"><img src="Images/PostedBackBtn.gif" width="165" height="49" /></div>
<div id="apDiv9"><img src="Images/shapeimage_1.png" width="93" height="17" /></div>
<div id="apDiv10"><img src="Images/shapeimage_1.png" alt="" width="93" height="17" /></div>
<div id="apDiv11"><img src="Images/ButtonBlank4.jpg" width="191" height="70" /></div>
<div id="apDiv12"><img src="Images/ButtonBlank4.jpg" alt="" width="191" height="70" /></div>
<div id="apDiv13"><img src="Images/Sample-gallery_btn.gif" width="150" height="18" /></div>
<div id="apDiv14"><img src="Images/OrderingInfo_btn.gif" width="160" height="15" /></div>
<div class="style2" id="apDiv15">
<div align="center" class="style4">Send you photo and one of our professional Anime Artists will create a unique, hand-drawn, signed Anime Portrait.</div>
</div>
<div class="style2" id="apDiv16">
<div align="center" class="style4">You have a choice of styles, sizes and frames. Your artwork will be posted to your door within days or sent as a gift.</div>
</div>
<div class="style5" id="apDiv17">Real Hand-drawn Portraits</div>
<div class="style5" id="apDiv18">Prices from £10</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
 
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Did you try it? Without all your images I'm not going to try to duplicate your work, but a quick 'Find and Replace' changing 'absolute' to 'relative' should give you a good start

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I am having some problems with this AP Div stuff...

My website looks pretty much exactly the way I want it, but everything is positioned "absolute" align to the left.
I am using AP Divs so that I can layer my buttons. When I change the position of the AP Div to be "relative", everything lines up in the middle the way I want it (except for one) but then the up/down position is all crazy. (My buttons are not centered on the sword any more).

So what can I do to get the whole page centered "relative" to the web browser without screwing up the up/down position?
 
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Welcome to Tek-Tips.

I recommend starting a new thread rather than hijacking this one (even though your problems are similar).
 
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