Center align a div in IE 8

Lise Rasmussen 4 Comments

Usually when I want to center align a div on a page, I use margin:auto auto and set my width to a specific width, like 940px in my stylesheet. But, this does NOT work in IE 8. So to make that work, use

width:940px
height:100%
position:absolute
left:50% (to tell that your div should start in the middle of the page)
margin-left:-490px (half of your div size)

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Anonymous

You need to add a vaild doctype for IE to centrally align a div using margin auto.

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Anonymous

use this instead:

css-margin:auto;
html-

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Anonymous

use this instead:

css-margin:auto;
html-
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd&quot; >

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Lise

Thanks for sharing 🙂
/Lise

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