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Asked: 2026-06-07T12:53:01+00:00

I currently have a Table solution to formatting the AddThis Div Buttons. You can

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I currently have a Table “solution” to formatting the AddThis Div Buttons.
You can see this at: http://www.siding4u.com/save-on-siding.php

At the top of the page it shows correctly:
AddThis buttons formatted to the right of an image and offset at the top of the page

Here’s the Code (work around) for that:

<table align="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td width="60%" align="right"><img title="Help us. Help you." src="http://www.siding4u.com/media/shareaholic/img_help-us-help-you_right_yellow-text.png" alt="TEXT: Sharing is caring! Help us. Help you." width="360" height="23" /></td>
    <td width="40%" align="left"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->
<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style">
<a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a>
<a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a>
<a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a>
<a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a>
<a class="addthis_button_compact"></a>
<a class="addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style"></a>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#pubid=siding4u"></script>
<!-- AddThis Button END --></td>
  </tr>
</table>

I’m having/wanting to convert all of my table layouts to CSS but I can’t seem to get the AddThis buttons to cooperate. They always seem to “LEFT JUSTIFY” or BREAK Somehow – no matter what I try.

I’m guessing this is an easy fix but I’m one of those CSS “block heads” that can’t seem to whip the CSS into shape.

Please help…

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  1. Editorial Team

    In css aligning images is based on their position on the page rather than their justification ( the elements with class addthis_button_preferred_1...n should probably control this ) In a table you justify it left/center/right etc. while with CSS your aim is to align the in a way that it’s child elements will be in the middle.

    HTML: 

    <div id='wrapper'> <!-- parent div containing the help-us-help-you image and the buttons-->
    <div id="help_us"><!-- float:left because we want the image div and the button dive to be besides eachother -->
        <img title="Help us. Help you." src="http://www.siding4u.com/media/shareaholic/img_help-us-help-you_right_yellow-text.png" alt="TEXT: Sharing is caring! Help us. Help you." width="360" height="23"/>
    </div>
    <div id='buttons'><!-- this div should also be floated left and have padding, to align the buttons correctly -->

        <!-- each of the link elements should get some padding -->
        <a class="addthis_button_preferred_1 button_preferred"></a>
        <a class="addthis_button_preferred_2 button_preferred"></a>
        <a class="addthis_button_preferred_3 button_preferred"></a>
        <a class="addthis_button_preferred_4 button_preferred"></a>
        <a class="addthis_button_compact button_preferred"></a>
        <a class="addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style button_preferred"></a>
    </div>
</div>

    The whole example is online on this fiddle, and should hopefully help with the alignment, and is a pure CSS solution, no tables there at all!

    p.s. As a side note, I do recomend you use jsfiddle for CSS/HTML/javascript issues, it does help us see the problem better, and make changes faster.

    EDIT
    For the second issue: 

    <div align="center" style="margin-bottom:0; margin-top:5px;"> 
<div id='wrapper'> 
...
​</div>
...
</div>

    For this element the height for some reason is 48 px, which creates a gap between the two elements. So apply a height to it, change:

    style="margin-bottom:0; margin-top:5px;"

    TO:

    style="margin-bottom:0; margin-top:5px;height:23px;"

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