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Netbeans IDE 6.91 "center horizontally" not clickable

hello everyone, i am decent with java programming, but very new to GUI development. i wanted to make a console blackjack game i made years ago into one where people can play via a GUI i build using netbeans. i think that without a GUI, most people won't take the game seriously when i add it to my working portfolio i created a JFRAME wi...

iphone - UILabel - How to align to top left

I'm having a 4 line label in my iPhone app. When my label text is small, the label is centered vertically. But I want to start at topleft corner of the label. I used following code, still not working. campaignDescription.baselineAdjustment = UIBaselineAdjustmentNone; How to achieve this? ...

Multiple centered floating divs in a liquid layout

I have an idea for a layout I would like to use, but I can't get it to work correctly. I am hoping someone on here might be able to help as I have spent hours searching. The layout is like so. One wrapper div houses 6 child divs. Those child divs must be centered at ALL times regardless of the size of the wrapper div. <html> <head> <t...

centering a DIV using CSS. Got me puzzled for a long time

Ok, this is not really a question, more a solution to a question I was about to ask... What I was trying to do was simply center a div using CSS. and I couldn't get my head around it. It simply didn't work. I used the following code: <style type="text/css"> <!-- div.test { width: 300px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: au...

Centering an div which overflows it's parent within another centered div

I have a single column layout where the column is a centered div with a fixed width. I want to place a wider div within the column which overflows it's parents, but center it within the parent. Conceptually something like the following: <div style="width: 100px; margin: 0 auto; overflow:visible;" id="parent"> <div style="width: 400p...

Problem centering div with css

Hi all, I'm trying to center a div in my page but I have a very particular layout that doesn't let me center it with regular margin: auto properties. What I have is, basically this: HTML: <div id="container"> <div id="sidebar"> some text </div> </div id="content"> some text </div> </div> CSS: #contai...