I was searching for that stuff some years ago, but there was no option to center a div in the body verticaly in those times.
But know there is a nice solution, at least a solution, to make this formating.
I had tome hints from here.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="de" lang="de">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Verticaly and horizontaly centering</title>
<style type="text/css">
html, body {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
html {
overflow: hidden;
}
body {
text-align: center; /*horizontal center in IE*/
}
body[id] {
display: table;
}
#table {
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
}
#table[id] {
position: static;
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
#cell {
text-align: left;
background: #9f9;
position: relative;
top: -50%;
left: -50%;
height: 300px;
width: 500px;
overflow: auto;
margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
padding: 0.5em;
}
#cell[id] {
position: static;
}
</style>
</head>
<body id="body">
<div id="table">
<div id="cell">
<p>The div box with the green background ist now centered verticaly and horizontaly in IE lte 6 and Firefox<br/>
The css definition like <b>body[id]</b> mean: every body element with an id attribute.<br/>
This will not be interpreted by the IE lte 6, so we can use this syntax to make different definition for IE, and the rest of the browsers.
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And if we put some more text in this div, we will have a scroll bar just for this one.<br/>
I also added some padding to this div, just to look a little better.
</p>
<p>
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</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
