I want the content of a web page to be centered and max width

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Asked: June 5, 20262026-06-05T22:59:23+00:00 2026-06-05T22:59:23+00:00

I want the content of a web page to be centered and max width of, say 900px.

From my research and testing, it looks like this is the way to do it, but I wanted to confirm:

<body style="max-width:900px; text-align:center;margin-left:auto ;margin-right:auto">

Obviously, you’d put the style in the CSS.

And I figure anybody with a big screen is going to have a fairly new browser.

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-06-05T22:59:25+00:00

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CSS:

body { width: 100%; text-align: center; }
#centerContainer { width: 900px; text-align: left; margin: 0px auto; }

HTML:

<body>
  <div id="centerContainer">Content</div>
</body>

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