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    copied!<p>Demo Page: <a href="http://apps.pc-tips.in/play/" rel="nofollow">http://apps.pc-tips.in/play/</a></p> <p>In the above, the div containing "Ask any question &amp; get" is centered, but the div containg the line "answers on" is not. why? Both have been styled similarly. given width, absolute position, margin auto.</p> <p>The code:</p> <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt; &lt;title&gt;Untitled Document&lt;/title&gt; &lt;style type="text/css"&gt; div { margin:0 ; padding:0 ; } #sidebar { height: 600px; width: 200px; } #topside { height: 108px; background-image: url(Untitled-3.jpg); background-repeat: repeat-x; text-align: center; position: relative; } .down { bottom: 3px; position: absolute; margin: auto; width: 200px; } #bottomside { background-image: url(Untitled-4.jpg); height: 492px; position: relative; } #wrapper #sidebar #topside { color: #FFF; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: bold; } .delhi { font-size: 1.8em; } .top { top: 3px; position: absolute; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 100px; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;div id="wrapper"&gt; &lt;div id="sidebar"&gt; &lt;div id="topside"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span class="delhi"&gt;Delhi &lt;/span&gt; Questions and answers. &lt;div class="down"&gt; Ask any question &amp; get &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="bottomside"&gt; &lt;div class="top"&gt; answers on &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>would anyone like to point out what I am missing here? </p>
 

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