Title: Central Column…How?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Central Column…How?

 *  [Alex Cragg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/epicalex/)
 * (@epicalex)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/central-columnhow/)
 * ive been using wordpress for a year, and i’m coming to the point where i want
   to design my own themes. but ive come across a problem…i dont know how to create
   a central column (!!) with space at the sides, as opposed to a header etc that
   fills the whole width. If i change the width of everything, it just all pushes
   to the left hand side. what css tag do i need to use? I know this is probably
   really simple, but i can’t work it out from other central columned themes. thanks(
   my return button is broke, hence the big block of text:)

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 *  [peiqinglong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peiqinglong/)
 * (@peiqinglong)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/central-columnhow/#post-550613)
 * What you do is you have your central column right:
 * `<div id="central_column"></div>`
 * Inside of it, you’re banner:
 *     ```
       <div id="central_column">
         <div id="banner"><img src="http://" alt="" /></div>'
   
       Then in your CSS:
       ```
   
 * #central_column {width: 800px; }
    #banner {margin: 0 auto; width: 600px (however
   big your banner is); }`
 * What’s that going to do is put the img in your banner centered in your central
   column. This is a crude example, but will give you an idea. The margin: 0 **auto**
   is what auto centers the img.

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