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Asked: 2026-05-16T05:33:52+00:00

Is it bad or totally wrong to get a horizontally centered page by tuning

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Is it bad or totally wrong to get a horizontally centered page by tuning CSS properties of html tag?

css code snippet:

<style type="text/css">
    html
    {
        width: 1200px;
        margin: 0px auto;
        background-color: Gray;
    }
    body
    {
        background-color: red;
    }
</style>

html code snippet:

<body>any contents go here...</body>
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  1. Editorial Team

    The html is the father of every element in the page. If it becomes centered, let’s say you want to position something absolutely at the top left/right of your entire page. It will now become relative to the centered html element, most likely… and it would be a pain having to offset that effect, which is why I don’t recommend doing so.

    This is why it’s better to center at least the body or a div wrapper.

    EDIT: It seems like the AP’d element will be relative to the entire viewport in my actual test ( in Fx 3 ), but even so it could be inconsistent cross browser and inconsistent with IE.

    You’re guaranteed things will go right by centering the wrapper.

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