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Image centering works in internal but not in external stylesheet


Nocturna

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Hello, I'm having an issue centering images on my site and was hoping someone could help. I'm trying to center an image on my site (it's the only content at the moment) and can do so on an internal stylesheet in the HTML code but not in an external stylesheet. I'm certain that it's not an issue with the HTML finding the external sheet as the body "background-color" does work. Below is the coding I's using: Internal Stylesheet (background colour is there and image is centered):

<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><base href="http://www.website.com/images/"><base target="_blank"><title>website</title><style type="text/css">  body {background-color:#d8d8d8;}  img.center {  display:block;  margin-left:auto;  margin-right:auto;  }</style> </head><body><img class="center" src="comingsoon.png" alt="Coming Soon..." width="800" height="600">  </body></html>

External Stylesheet (background colour is there but image is not centered): HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><base href="http://www.website.com/images/"><base target="_blank"><title>website</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/stylesheets/cssmain.css"> </head><body><img class="center" src="comingsoon.png" alt="Coming Soon..." width="800" height="600">  </body></html>

CSS:

body {background-color:#d8d8d8;}img.center {	display:block;	margin-left:auto;	margin-right:auto;}

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It is possible that the <base> element is giving a wrong path to the stylesheet, see if it works when removing it. Due to the fact that an image is an inline element by default, the best way to center it is to put it into a container and set the text-align to "center"Example:

.container { text-align: center; }

<div class="container">    <img></div>

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