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[CSS] Center align a variable width div?

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Axel

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I've tried so many methods and I'm probably just being an idiot:

I'm using a gallery in php for a website which automatigically generated thumbnails and allows breadcrumbs nav etc... perfect!

Only problem I'm having is that after integrating the code I can't for the life of me figure out how to centralise the div within the parent div.

Two examples of the gallery are here:

http://www.aerostrea...allery.php?dir=

http://www.aerostrea...hp?dir=Exterior

That code is auto generated so I wouldn't bother looking at it. The code for the template being used is actually here:

http://www.aerostrea.../integrate.html

<!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">;head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title><% title %></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<% gallery_root %>css/mediaboxAdvBlack21.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<script src="<% gallery_root %>js/mootools.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="<% gallery_root %>js/mediaboxAdv-1.3.4b.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<style type="text/css">
body {
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0;
width: <% gallery_width %>;
font: 14px Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
}
h1 {
font: normal 320%/100% Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
margin: 20px 0 5px 0;
letter-spacing: -2px;
}
.credits {
border-bottom: solid 1px #ccc;
padding-bottom: 5px;
margin: 0 0 30px 0;
font: 120% Garamond, Georgia, serif;
}
.credits em {
color: #999;
}
.backlink a {
font-size: 10px;
text-decoration: none;
color: #AAA;
}
.backlink a:hover,
.backlink a:visited:hover {
color: #000;
}
img {
border: none;
}
#page_nav {
color: #999;
clear:both;
text-align: center;
}
#page_nav a:link, #page_nav a:visited, #page_nav a:hover, #page_nav a:visited:hover {
text-decoration: none;
color: #222;
}
#breadcrumb_nav {
color: #999;
}
#breadcrumb_nav a:link, #breadcrumb_nav a:visited, #breadcrumb_nav a:hover, #breadcrumb_nav a:visited:hover {
text-decoration: none;
color: #222;
}
a {
color: black;
}
#container {
overflow: hidden;
width: auto;
}
.hidden {
visibility: hidden;
position:absolute;
top:0;
left:0;
display:inline;
}

/* ---------- gallery styles start here ----------------------- */
.gallery {
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

.gallery li {
padding: 10px;
margin: 0;
float: left;
position: relative;
width: 130px;
height: 130px;
}
.gallery li:hover img {
border-color: #000;
background: #ddd;
}
.gallery img {
background: #fff;
border: solid 1px #888;
padding: 5px;
}
.gallery em {
background: #fff url(images/grey-gradient.gif) repeat-y;
color: #000;
font-style: normal;
padding: 2px 10px;
display: block;
position: absolute;
top: 110px;
left: 9px;
border: 1px solid #999;
border-left-color: #888;
}
.gallery a {
text-decoration: none;
}
.gallery a:hover em {
background: #ffdb01 url(images/orange-gradient.gif) repeat-y;
border-color: #c25b08;
}
.newversion {
position: absolute;
right: 0;
top: 0;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: none;
float: none;
}
.newversion a img {
background-color: transparent;
color: white;
border: none;
text-decoration: none;
}
</style>
</head>

<body>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<span id="breadcrumb_nav"><% breadcrumb_navigation %></span>
<div id="container">
<ul class="gallery">
<br>
<br>
<% thumbnails %>
</ul>
</div>
<br />
<div id="page_nav"><% page_navigation %></div>
<br />
<!-- CREDITS - DO NOT REMOVE OR YOU WILL VOID MiniGal Nano TERMS OF USE -->
<div class="backlink" align="center"><a href="http://www.minigal.dk" title="Powered by MiniGal Nano" target="_blank">Powered by MiniGal Nano <% version %></a></div>
<br /><br />
</body>
</html>

The div in question is #container, it's just frustrating me that I can't centralise the damn thing

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Axel

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I considered this but there still must be a way to just centralise the lot. I mean on the first page there are only 3 folders (3 columns) and in the in the subfolders there are 4 columns. So it need to be able to centralise it based on what the content is if that makes sense.

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  On 14/03/2012 at 13:25, Axel said:

I considered this but there still must be a way to just centralise the lot. I mean on the first page there are only 3 folders (3 columns) and in the in the subfolders there are 4 columns. So it need to be able to centralise it based on what the content is if that makes sense.

add a wrapper around the content with overflow: hidden; and margin: 0 auto; ;)

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