How can I center something if I don't know ahead of time what the width is?

Question

I am trying to center a paragraph tag with some text in it within a div, but I can\'t seem to center it using margin: 0 auto without having to specify a fixed width for the

Answer 1

Besides "text-align" property

for centering elements inside block elements like div

use css like

 margin:auto

something like what is posted below

When vertically-centering, its better to use Tables (this in most cases is the only the cross-browser compatible solution )

you can use

 "text-align:center"  

 "vertical-align:middle"