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CSS & HTML: About to lose my mind-why won't the text left align? Please help
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Hello,
I'm just starting on this web page, and I'm stuck. It's driving me absolutely mad as I'm sure the solution is simple, I just can't see it. Why isn't the background showing beneath the text, and why isn't the text left-aligned? Can anyone spot an error? Here is my code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
background-color: #0c1c4f;
}
div.maincontainer {
}
div.contentcontainer {
float:left;
width:539px;
}
div.sidebarcontainer {
float:right;
width:225px;
}
div.bigtop {
width:539px;
height:24px;
}
div.contenttileback {
background-image:url(images/bigtile.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
width:539px;
}
div.contenthere {
text-align: left;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div style="maincontainer" align="center">
<div style="contentcontainer">
<div style="bigtop"><img src="images/bigtop.png" /></div>
<div style="contenttileback">
<div style="contenthere">fjdksafjda<br />hgfsdhgf<br />hgfd<br />hgfd<br />hgfd
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="sidebarcontainer">
</div>
</div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
</body>
</html>
Thank you -
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CommentAuthorkari.patila
- CommentTimeApr 11th 2008 edited
Here's your problem: instead of div style="" you should have a div class=""
div.content in CSS refers to div class="content" in HTML -
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Oh my lord, I knew it would be something stupid. I knew that and I can't believe I did it. Thanks a lot for taking a look. :)
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