Centering a page vertically

[Shaun Dreclin]

Well I know it should be simple, but I dont have any idea what the code is!

[Shaun Dreclin]

Hmm... Maybe its something like valign center.. *goes to try that*

[wtd]

There is no reliable way to do it.

[rdrake]

Like wtd said, there's no real way to do it easily and effectively. You could use a bunch of <br /> tags, but then that doesn't work at all resolutions. You could use Javascript, but that too creates problems with many browsers. You could insert a table which covers the entire screen and add a

[[Gandalf]]

Just use a table and valign that. When your using plain HTML for anything more than an insignificant page it's almost impossible to write "proper" code.

^Advice from years of web development experience.

[Amailer]

won't

CSS:

body { margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; }

work?

[md]

That does centering left/right (in some browsers... forget about most versions of IE). Vertical centering is rather difficult though. Fortunately it's almost always pointless... so unless you have a really reason it's not worth hacking together.