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

if the div has set width all you need is

.myDiv { text-align:center; }

Also listen to garry's comment. under no circumstances use inline css.

Also another dirty fix for this in case you have other stuff in the div to centre:

you can always:

$('.youParagraph or .otherContent').wrap('');

Obviously do not practice this if you work within a large team and separation of concerns is an issue.

I hope this helped.