Center A Container Ul/div In A Fluid Layout

I want to center a container div in a fluid lay-out (content with id: articles_grid has to be centered): http://www.benskesblog.com/projects/frontend/project/index.htm I've tried a

Solution 1:

I believe changes are pretty simple to achieve what you need:

#articles_grid {
...
text-align: center; /*add this*/
}

#articles_gridli {
...
/* float:left; remove this */display: inline-block; /*add this*/
}

Solution 2:

You can give display:inline-block to you DIV which you want in center & define text-align:center in his parent DIV. For example you can do like this:

CSS:

.parent{
    background:red;
    text-align:center;
}
.center{
    text-align:left;
    display:inline-block;
    *display:inline;/* IE7 */
    *zoom:1;
    background:yellow;
    min-height:100px;
}

HTML:

<divclass="parent"><divclass="center">lorem ipsum</div></div>

Check the example below:

http://jsfiddle.net/aNR3a/