I'm implementing pagination, and it needs to be centered. The problem is that the links need to be displayed as block, so they need to be floated. But then, text-align: center;
doesn't work on them. I could achieve it by giving the wrapper div padding of left, but every page will have a different number of pages, so that wouldn't work. Here's my code:
To get the idea, what I want:
Removing float
s, and using inline-block
may fix your problems:
.pagination a {
- display: block;
+ display: inline-block;
width: 30px;
height: 30px;
- float: left;
margin-left: 3px;
background: url(/images/structure/pagination-button.png);
}
(remove the lines starting with -
and add the lines starting with +
.)
.pagination {
text-align: center;
}
.pagination a {
+ display: inline-block;
width: 30px;
height: 30px;
margin-left: 3px;
background: url(/images/structure/pagination-button.png);
}
.pagination a.last {
width: 90px;
background: url(/images/structure/pagination-button-last.png);
}
.pagination a.first {
width: 60px;
background: url(/images/structure/pagination-button-first.png);
}
<div class='pagination'>
<a class='first' href='#'>First</a>
<a href='#'>1</a>
<a href='#'>2</a>
<a href='#'>3</a>
<a class='last' href='#'>Last</a>
</div>
<!-- end: .pagination -->
inline-block
works cross-browser, even on IE6 as long as the element is originally an inline element.
Quote from quirksmode:
An inline block is placed inline (ie. on the same line as adjacent content), but it behaves as a block.
this often can effectively replace floats:
The real use of this value is when you want to give an inline element a width. In some circumstances some browsers don't allow a width on a real inline element, but if you switch to display: inline-block you are allowed to set a width.” ( http://www.quirksmode.org/css/display.html#inlineblock ).
From the W3C spec:
[inline-block] causes an element to generate an inline-level block container. The inside of an inline-block is formatted as a block box, and the element itself is formatted as an atomic inline-level box.