How to make a div center align in HTML [duplicate]

Question

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Center</title>
  </head>
  <body>

    <div style="text-align: center;">
      <div style="width: 500px; margin: 0 auto; background: #000; color: #fff;">This DIV is centered</div>
    </div>

  </body>
</html>

Tested and worked in IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. I did not test IE6. The outer text-align is needed for IE. Other browsers (and IE9?) will work when you give the DIV margin (left and right) value of auto. Margin “0 auto” is a shorthand for margin “0 auto 0 auto” (top right bottom left).

Note: the text is also centered inside the inner DIV, if you want it to remain on the left side just specify text-align: left; for the inner DIV.

Edit: IE 6, 7, 8 and 9 running on the Standards Mode will work with margins set to auto.

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