Centralised web pages

ukrspp21 · #1 05-Sep-2003, 04:38

Dear All

I am sorry this thread is a little off topic, however does anyone know how to display a fixed size web page in the centre of the screen. My page is a series of tables with a fixed width of about 800px. I run my monitor at 1280x1024, which means that my page is displayed in the top left corner of my screen.

I have noticed that people like e-bay can keep theirs in the centre of the screen. I downloaded their site to see if I could figure how to do it. Unfortunately most was in JavaScript, not my forte.

Can anyone help?

Best regards

Philip

ukrspp21 · #2 05-Sep-2003, 04:48

dohhhh

sorrry, simple html (<center>) is of course the answer!!

Garth Farley · #3 05-Sep-2003, 08:55

That might work, but I recommend a 3 column table, with the center column width of 760 - for your content, and the other 2 columns width of 50% - to space it equally in the center of the screen.

GF

ukrspp21 · #4 05-Sep-2003, 09:00

Yeah 10 minutes and a truly Homer Simpson moment!! The <center> tags are working at the mo, however I shall certainly keep your tip in mind when developing future pages.

Thanks

Phil

JdS · #5 05-Sep-2003, 18:12

I believe the <center> tags are deprecated in XHTML, though I haven't really verified this just now.

For anyone interested in an alternative way, here's one using CSS (and margin:auto):

HTML Code:


<body>
  <table style="width:760px; margin:auto;">
    <!-- row and cells -->
  </table>
</body>

Another, tested, sample code here: http://www.desilva.biz/forum/showthr...=4883#post4883

Kalphegor · #6 08-Sep-2003, 17:17

try with frames like this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>your site name here</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-2">
</head>
<frameset cols="*,765,*" frameborder="no" framespacing="0" border="0">
<frame src="left.htm" name="left" scrolling="no" noresize> {what page to display at left}
<frame src="center.htm" name="center" scrolling="auto" noresize> {what page to display in center}
<frame src="right.htm" name="right" scrolling="no" noresize> {what page to display at right}
</frameset>
</html>

and an example at this address:
www.kalphegor.go.ro

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