For a project of mine, I'm using Skeleton Boilerplate for the first time. And I'm looking for the best practice of centring a div in Skeleton without bashing into the rules of Skeleton.
At the moment, I've the following structure for a login page.
HTML:
<div class="container">
<div class="sixteen columns vertical-offset-by-one">
<div id="loginBox">
<img src="images/yeditepeLogo.png" alt="Yeditepe Logo" class="yeditepeLogo" />
<form action="" id="loginForm">
<input type="text" name="username" required placeholder="username" class="loginTextField">
<input type="password" name="password" required placeholder="password" class="loginTextField">
<input type="submit" value="Log In" class="loginButton" />
</form>
</div><!-- loginBox -->
</div><!-- sixteen columns -->
<div class="sixteen columns">
<p align="center"><a href="registration.html" target="_blank">Click here to register</a></p>
</div>
</div><!-- container -->
CSS:
#loginBox, #registrationBox {
width: 470px;
height: 450px;
background-color: white;
left: 245px; */
top: 20px; */
position: relative;
margin: 0px auto; }
#registrationBox {
height: 500px; }
.yeditepeLogo {
position: relative;
left: 40px;
top: 33px; }
#loginForm, #registrationForm {
position: relative;
top: 45px; }
.loginTextField, .registrationTextField {
position: relative;
height: 40px;
width: 388px;
left: 40px;
border-color: #dedede;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
text-align: left;
font-size: 18px;
text-indent: 10px;
-webkit-appearance: none; }
.loginTextField:focus, .registrationTextField:focus {
outline-color: #ff9800;
outline-style: solid;
outline-width: 1px;
border-color: white; }
.loginTextField:nth-child(2), .registrationTextField:nth-child(3) {
margin-bottom: 40px; }
.loginButton, .registrationButton {
background-color: #77a942;
position: relative;
border: none;
width: 390px;
height: 60px;
left: 40px;
color: white;
font-size: 24px;
text-align: center;
opacity: 0.8; }
.loginButton:hover, .registrationButton:hover {
opacity: 1; }
As you can see, that #loginBox has a fixed width/height and it should always be on the centre of the page. margin: 0px auto code gives it the horizontal centring. But is it the best practice in Skeleton? Does Skeleton provide a better way?
Also how can I provide it's vertical centring?
There's actually a built in way of centering divs in Skeleton.
<div class="sixteen columns">
<div class="four columns offset-by-six">
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</div>
</div>
The offset-by-six in this case can be altered from one to fifteen, and offsets the column at hand by as many columns as entered. As a neat feature, the offsetting is not affecting alignment when smaller screens are used.
To clarify: This doesn't center the actual content in the div, but centers the div itself.