PatternSkinCssCookbook Recipe: Center the page with a border

This recipe shows how to put a border around the page, while centering the page horizontally. The example on this page uses a gradient image as background - on top of a gray base color. You can choose to set no image of course.

   * Set USERSTYLEURL = %ATTACHURL%/centerpage.css

Add the dynamic variable link to the logo image to the topic text:

<style type="text/css" media="all">
html body {
background-image:url("%PUBURLPATH%/%TWIKIWEB%/PatternSkin/gradient_page.gif");
background-repeat:repeat-x;
}
#patternPageShadow {
background-image:url("%PUBURLPATH%/%TWIKIWEB%/PatternSkin/striped_pageshadow.gif");
}
</style>

If you don't write this overloading style in a template and use an external .css file, you need to set the image to the absolute url:

<style type="text/css" media="all">
html body {
background-image:url("/pub/TWiki/PatternSkin/gradient_page.gif");
background-repeat:repeat-x;
}
</style>

You can always write a <style> in a topic - all current browsers support this - but the page won't validate as valid XHTML.