# Border centering

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/border-centering/219316>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [March 15, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/border-centering/219316 "2007-03-15T17:06:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![rangerkev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f17d59/32.png) [@rangerkev](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rangerkev)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/border-centering/219316/1 "2007-03-15T17:06:28Z")

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You guys were so good with my last question I figured I’d post this one too.

I want to have the entire content of the site surrounded by a border, which is in the body tag. this works fine except that I cannot get it to center. Here is the code. Any ideas?

body{  
background-image:url(images/topbar.gif);  
background-repeat:no-repeat;  
background-position:center;  
width:700px;  
margin:0px;  
border:solid;  
border-color:#006600;  
}