Center a Video on Wordpress

**jakki** · 27 September, 2009, 10:51 AM

Originally Posted by dmi

Code:

<div align="center">
video goes here
</div>

Its the best method i know.

but i am too late to help.

**ChrisFletcher** · 29 September, 2009, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by Aziz

warning: deprecated tag. No longer w3 valid for standard xhtml doctypes

Oh yeah... It is ..But still works on WP .

Originally Posted by Keldorn

I laugh when I see a template using <center>. That is defiantly 1999 style, Who uses that anymore! Well Apparently only newbie webmasters.

Something I can't understand is that <b></b> is deprecated and they recommend <strong>?
<b> is a lot faster to type. I would rather keep using <b>.

You got it right.

I am yet to renew a domain that i registered. So...

**Sami4u** · 29 September, 2009, 16:17 PM

Hi,

Can anyone tell me why?

Code:

<div align="center">
video goes here
</div>

Works on all of my WP sites but not on my main site?

Main site first in sig.

Thanks in Advance

Sami

**Aziz** · 29 September, 2009, 16:39 PM

Originally Posted by Sami4u

Hi,

Can anyone tell me why?

Code:

<div align="center">
video goes here
</div>

Works on all of my WP sites but not on my main site?

Main site first in sig.

Thanks in Advance

Sami

because your website doctype is probably XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD which does not support the <center> tag.

**Sami4u** · 29 September, 2009, 16:45 PM

Originally Posted by Aziz

because your website doctype is probably XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD which does not support the <center> tag.

Hi,

How do I find this out and change it?

Thanks

Butterflies Forever

Sami

**Aziz** · 29 September, 2009, 17:04 PM

in most cases the DTD is declated in header.php file

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

I wouldn't suggest changing the DTD because then the rest of the template might not look the same duo to the compatibility changes in DTDs

So the best solution would be a few lines of CSS

and if you need help with that then let me know

**Andy101** · 30 September, 2009, 12:05 PM

Maybe this would work?:

<div style="margin: 0 auto; width:400px;">Video</div>

I didn't test it but it is based on how I center the page content on a site.

**Sami4u** · 30 September, 2009, 18:58 PM

Originally Posted by Andy101

Maybe this would work?:

<div style="margin: 0 auto; width:400px;">Video</div>

I didn't test it but it is based on how I center the page content on a site.

Hi,

Yes that one worked

Now I can center my videos on all of my WP sites. They look a lot better that way.

Butterflies Forever

Sami