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centering ellements using css?

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Tim:
Does anybody know a way to center a block using just css?

so far the only thing I've found was


--- Code: ---.block{
      width: 90%;
      margin-left: 5%;
      margin-right: 5^%;
}
--- End code ---
but that results in some browser issues...

Joel:
Margin: auto will center a block element as long as the width is set.


--- Code: ---.block { width: 90%; margin: auto; }
--- End code ---

Tim:
have you got a working example, because I can't get it to work :-/

Joel:
Do you have a valid DOCTYPE? If not, the browser will default to tag soup mode (for old and non-standards compliant pages). It also keeps margin: auto from working.

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_doctype.asp

Tim:
yah, I know how to do valid html ;)

they should really put an align statement in css  :-\

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