HTML & CSS for Beginners Part 20: How to center a div

The last fundamental skill that we need before we can build a layout: Creating a container that can center our content inside the browser. This is a nice, short video that has a few nice tricks in it!

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[onlygodcanjudgeme]

I went all the way back to your videos because they make me thrilled somehow by their recorders' professionalism

[albertlewis]

I spent more than a week looking at different videos and reading a couple books just to learn how to center a div and none NONE of them showed this trick. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

[mantralayamsrinath]

Clear, to the point, no beating around the bush and precise. Excellent. Thank you.

[moonlightCR]

You're making the CSS a piece of cake for me, thank you Kevin.

[Zen-lzhc]

Thank you for being straight and to the point.
And not spending too much time to get to the point.
Many thanks for that.

[SohomS]

I really don't know how to thank you. I am watching every episode and getting new questions and problems when making my own page. AND IN ALL THAT MIRACULOUSLY YOU SOLVE EVERY PROBLEM IN THE NEXT VIDEO. Really really thank you.

[EverythingGwenny]

Thank you so much for this. So simple yet I couldn't figure this out! It has been driving me crazy for a bit. Now to look for vertical centring

[sandile]

you explained it so well. really appreciate it. thank you Kevin!

[elizabeth]

from the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU

[rahuljiyani]

Thanks @Kevin Powell, nice video on colors in CSS, this series is very much helpful .

[HayleySweet]

margin: 0 auto -- now makes SO MUCH MORE SENSE!!! Ty!

[krailamohammedislam]

this is it this the good stuff i have been looking for thank you so much.

[EyBossPusi]

Thank straight to the point, provide clear explanation thank you.
This help me as learning backend

[aaronmaiden]

That's a great great explanation, thank you sir

[unruly_ronin]

Absolutely beautiful. Chef's kiss brother

[adelbagg]

great explanation as usual, you could add padding to the container so the text inside the div aligns better
thank you

[salemmajed]

Thanks it's important and very useful.

[RamsFan]

Do i have to set html max-width first?

[pancakesauces]

Whats the lore behind using that example text? My IT teacher uses the same text.

[lrabeno]

Would I be able to set a margin of 10px on the top and bottom but still be able to center a div? If i wrote
margin: 10px auto; would it still be centered on my page with a top and bottom margin of 10px? Thankyou for this video series. Its been very helpful on my journey learning html and css.