Title: Centering wordpress website Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Centering wordpress website * Resolved [thomas963](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomas963/) * (@thomas963) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/centering-wordpress-website/) * Hello * Iam having some trouble with the wordpress template “MyStyle” from wooThemes. There is no option to chose between a boxed or stretched layout. The standard layout is stretched. The problem is that i want it boxed so i can put in my own background pattern. * Because there is no option to slect a boxed layout, I’m forced to adjust the css. * this is the body in the style.css file: As you can see, I already added the margin and width attribute and this is the result: [http://www.thomas-timmers.be/wordpress/](http://www.thomas-timmers.be/wordpress/) * body { margin: 0 auto; width: 960px; margin: 0 auto; font-size: 1.4em; line- height: 1.618; color: #6c6360; font-family: “Open Sans”, sans-serif; -webkit- text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;- webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: #fcfcfc; } * Now my question is why the body is aligned on the left side but not centered? I tought that this (margin: 0 auto;) attribute should center the whole website. * Anyone know why the website is not centered? do I need to do something else or more? * Thanks! Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/centering-wordpress-website/#post-3360845) * Don’t apply it to the `` element, apply it to a `
`. * Thread Starter [thomas963](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomas963/) * (@thomas963) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/centering-wordpress-website/#post-3360851) * ok, thanks for the quick reply but what div? do I need to create an new div? and do i need this new div to link with my content? * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/centering-wordpress-website/#post-3360852) * The `
` that holds your elements you want centred. If there isn’t one, wrap a `
` around all of the elements you want centred. * Thread Starter [thomas963](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomas963/) * (@thomas963) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/centering-wordpress-website/#post-3360856) * Do I need to create this div around only the elements in the index file or all the php files? * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/centering-wordpress-website/#post-3360857) * You ought to ask this to WooThemes [http://www.woothemes.com/support/](http://www.woothemes.com/support/) Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘Centering wordpress website’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [body](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/body/) * [centering](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/centering/) * [css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/css/) * 5 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/centering-wordpress-website/#post-3360857) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics