Align a div to center

Question

I want to float a div to center. Is it possible? text-align: center is not working in IE.

Answer 1

<div id="outer" style="z-index:10000;width:99%;height:200px;margin-top:300px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;float:left;position:absolute;opacity:0.9;">

<div id="inner" style="opacity:1;background-color:White;width:300px;height:200px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;">Inner</div></div>

Float the div in the background to the max width, set a div inside that that's not transparent and center it using margin auto.

Answer 2

this works nicely

width:40%; // the width of the content div
right:0;
margin-right:30%; // 1/2 the remaining space

This resizes nicely with adaptive layouts also..

CSS example would be:

.centered-div {
   position:fixed;
   background-color:#fff;
   text-align:center;
   width:40%;
   right:0;
   margin-right:30%;
}

Answer 3

floating divs to center "works" with the combination of display:inline-block and text-align:center.

Try changing width of the outer div by resizing the window of this jsfiddle

<div class="outer">
    <div class="block">one</div>
    <div class="block">two</div>
    <div class="block">three</div>
    <div class="block">four</div>
    <div class="block">five</div>
</div>

and the css:

.outer {
    text-align:center;
    width: 50%;
    background-color:lightgray;
}

.block {
    width: 50px;
    height: 50px;
    border: 1px solid lime;
    display: inline-block;
    margin: .2rem;
    background-color: white;
}

Answer 4

This worked for me..

div.className {
display: inline-block;
margin: auto;
}

Answer 5

No, it isn't.

You can either have content bubble up to the right of an element (float: left) or to the left of an element (float: right), there is no provision for having content bubble up on both sides.

Answer 6

One of my websites involves a div whose size is variable and you won't know it ahead of time. it is an outer div with 2 nested divs, the outer div is the same width as the first nested div, which is the content, and the second nested div right below the content is the caption, which must be centered. Because the width is not known, I use jQuery to adjust accordingly.

so my html is this

<div id='outer-container'>
<div id='inner-container'></div>
<div id='captions'></div>
</div>

and then I center the captions in jQuery like this

captionWidth=$("#captions").css("width");
outerWidth=$("#outer-container").css("width");
marginIndent=(outerWidth-captionWidth)/2;
$("#captions").css("margin","0px "+marginIndent+"px");