# Placing all content within a middle div?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/placing-all-content-within-a-middle-div/299107
**Category:** web dev
**Created:** [October 29, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/placing-all-content-within-a-middle-div/299107 "2009-10-29T20:58:06Z")
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### Author: ![Wes\_Ide](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/wes_ide/32/1119_2.png) [@Wes\_Ide](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Wes_Ide)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/placing-all-content-within-a-middle-div/299107/1 "2009-10-29T20:58:06Z")

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Let’s say I make a page with this as the background:  
 ![](http://forum.kirupa.com/uploads/kirupa/5904/daa8cac02d72cca0.jpg)

Now I know it’s wide and all, and I can trim it down to whatever is a better bg size (1024? 800?), so let’s say I’ve done that.

What kind of CSS would I use to create one div that would be centered in that black middle column, where everything could be added within it from there on in?

Thanks so much in advance!