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bartonlewis

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I found code for a scrolling looping slideshow that I like but I can't get the div's to center.  The div's seem to be left aligned with more space on the right side of the screen than left; this is evident on my 1366px monitor but much more obvious on a 1920px monitor where there is a lot of blank space on the right side of the screen.  I have assigned display:flex to the parent and nested containers and center to align-items and justify-content, but the 2 main div's ("slider" and "wrapper_slider_text") are not centering.  If anyone can help, I'd be very grateful.  Thanks.

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<style>
body {
    width: 100%;
    margin: 0 auto 0;
    }
.flex-container-slider {
    display: -webkit-flex;
    display: -ms-flexbox;
    display: flex;
    padding-top: 0px;
    justify-content: center;
    align-items: center;
    }
.slider {
    width: 768px;
    height: 432x;
    overflow: hidden;
}
#slider_images {
    width : 9984px;
    height: 432px;
    overflow: hidden;
    /* animation duration: 36s : 13x ~3s display image + 5x ~0.2s slide */
    animation: slide 36s infinite;
    -moz-animation: slide 36s infinite;
    -webkit-animation: slide 36s infinite;
    -o-animation: slide 36s infinite;
}
#slider_images img {
    float: left;
}
.container_blank_space_small p {
    text-indent: -9999px;
    height: 26px;
}

    @keyframes slide{
    0%{margin-left: 0px;}
    4.7%{margin-left: 0px;}
    7.7%{margin-left: -768px;}
    12.4%{margin-left: -768px;}
    15.4%{margin-left: -1536px;}
    20.1%{margin-left: -1536px;}
    23.1%{margin-left: -2304px;}
    27.8%{margin-left: -2304px;}
    30.8%{margin-left: -3072px;}
    35.5%{margin-left: -3072px;}
    38.5%{margin-left: -3840px;}
    43.2%{margin-left: -3840px;}
    46.2%{margin-left: -4608px;}
    50.9%{margin-left: -4608px;}
    53.9%{margin-left: -5376px;}
    58.6%{margin-left: -5376px;}
    61.6%{margin-left: -6144px;}
    66.3%{margin-left: -6144px;}
    69.3%{margin-left: -6912px;}
    74%{margin-left: -6912px;}
    77%{margin-left: -7680px;}
    81.7%{margin-left: -7680px;}
    84.7%{margin-left: -8448px;}
    89.4%{margin-left: -8448px;}
    92.4%{margin-left: -9216px;}
    97.1%{margin-left: -9216px;}
    100%{margin-left: 0px;}
}
    @-moz-keyframes slide{
    0%{margin-left: 0px;}
    4.7%{margin-left: 0px;}
    7.7%{margin-left: -768px;}
    12.4%{margin-left: -768px;}
    15.4%{margin-left: -1536px;}
    20.1%{margin-left: -1536px;}
    23.1%{margin-left: -2304px;}
    27.8%{margin-left: -2304px;}
    30.8%{margin-left: -3072px;}
    35.5%{margin-left: -3072px;}
    38.5%{margin-left: -3840px;}
    43.2%{margin-left: -3840px;}
    46.2%{margin-left: -4608px;}
    50.9%{margin-left: -4608px;}
    53.9%{margin-left: -5376px;}
    58.6%{margin-left: -5376px;}
    61.6%{margin-left: -6144px;}
    66.3%{margin-left: -6144px;}
    69.3%{margin-left: -6912px;}
    74%{margin-left: -6912px;}
    77%{margin-left: -7680px;}
    81.7%{margin-left: -7680px;}
    84.7%{margin-left: -8448px;}
    89.4%{margin-left: -8448px;}
    92.4%{margin-left: -9216px;}
    97.1%{margin-left: -9216px;}
    100%{margin-left: 0px;}
}
@-webkit-keyframes slide{
    0%{margin-left: 0px;}
    4.7%{margin-left: 0px;}
    7.7%{margin-left: -768px;}
    12.4%{margin-left: -768px;}
    15.4%{margin-left: -1536px;}
    20.1%{margin-left: -1536px;}
    23.1%{margin-left: -2304px;}
    27.8%{margin-left: -2304px;}
    30.8%{margin-left: -3072px;}
    35.5%{margin-left: -3072px;}
    38.5%{margin-left: -3840px;}
    43.2%{margin-left: -3840px;}
    46.2%{margin-left: -4608px;}
    50.9%{margin-left: -4608px;}
    53.9%{margin-left: -5376px;}
    58.6%{margin-left: -5376px;}
    61.6%{margin-left: -6144px;}
    66.3%{margin-left: -6144px;}
    69.3%{margin-left: -6912px;}
    74%{margin-left: -6912px;}
    77%{margin-left: -7680px;}
    81.7%{margin-left: -7680px;}
    84.7%{margin-left: -8448px;}
    89.4%{margin-left: -8448px;}
    92.4%{margin-left: -9216px;}
    97.1%{margin-left: -9216px;}
    100%{margin-left: 0px;}
}
 @-o-keyframes slide{
    0%{margin-left: 0px;}
    4.7%{margin-left: 0px;}
    7.7%{margin-left: -768px;}
    12.4%{margin-left: -768px;}
    15.4%{margin-left: -1536px;}
    20.1%{margin-left: -1536px;}
    23.1%{margin-left: -2304px;}
    27.8%{margin-left: -2304px;}
    30.8%{margin-left: -3072px;}
    35.5%{margin-left: -3072px;}
    38.5%{margin-left: -3840px;}
    43.2%{margin-left: -3840px;}
    46.2%{margin-left: -4608px;}
    50.9%{margin-left: -4608px;}
    53.9%{margin-left: -5376px;}
    58.6%{margin-left: -5376px;}
    61.6%{margin-left: -6144px;}
    66.3%{margin-left: -6144px;}
    69.3%{margin-left: -6912px;}
    74%{margin-left: -6912px;}
    77%{margin-left: -7680px;}
    81.7%{margin-left: -7680px;}
    84.7%{margin-left: -8448px;}
    89.4%{margin-left: -8448px;}
    92.4%{margin-left: -9216px;}
    97.1%{margin-left: -9216px;}
    100%{margin-left: 0px;}
    }
.wrapper_slider_text {
    display: flex;
    width: 35%;
    overflow: hidden;
    min-height: 100%;
    justify-content: center;
    align-items: center;
    }
.slider_text {
    font-family: "europa",sans-serif;
    font-size: 125%;
    color: black;
    font-weight: 500;
    line-height: 125%;
    padding: 75px;
    letter-spacing: .8px;
    font-weight: 600;
     }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<header>
</header>  

<section class="flex-container-slider">
    <div class="slider">
     <!-- Each image is 768px by 432px -->
    <div id="slider_images">
        <img src="http://bartonlewisfilm.com/img_768_water.jpg" alt="water" />
        <img src="http://bartonlewisfilm.com/img_768_blue.jpg" alt="blue" />
        <img src="http://bartonlewisfilm.com/img_768_robins_egg.jpg" alt="robins egg" />
        <img src="http://bartonlewisfilm.com/img_768_23rd_st.jpg" alt="23rd st" />
        <img src="http://bartonlewisfilm.com/img_768_broken_guru.jpg" alt="broken guru" />
        <img src="http://bartonlewisfilm.com/img_768_i_will_miss_you.jpg" alt="i will miss you" />
        <img src="http://bartonlewisfilm.com/img_768_pants.jpg" alt="pants" />
        <img src="http://bartonlewisfilm.com/img_768_nose.jpg" alt="nose" />
        <img src="http://bartonlewisfilm.com/img_768_swirls.jpg" alt="swirls" />
        <img src="http://bartonlewisfilm.com/img_768_church_ave.jpg" alt="church ave" />
        <img src="http://bartonlewisfilm.com/img_768_network_reality_stars.jpg" alt="network reality all stars" />
        <img src="http://bartonlewisfilm.com/img_768_ports.jpg" alt="ports" />
        <img src="http://bartonlewisfilm.com/img_768_kline.jpg" alt="kline" />
    </div>
    </div>
    <div class="wrapper_slider_text">
        <div class="slider_text">
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        <div class="container_blank_space_small">
        <p>text</p>
        </div>
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        </div>
    </div>
</section>
</body>
</html>

 

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okay thanks, I'll recheck on my 1920 monitor at work Monday to confirm.  It does look okay now on my 1366 monitor.  Maybe when I stripped out the rest of the code from my webapge to upload here something was affected.

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