# [[PatternSkinCssCookbook]] Recipe: Center the page with a border **This recipe shows how to put a border around the page, while centering the page horizontally.** The example on this page uses a gradient image as background - on top of a gray base color. You can choose to set no image of course.
* Set USERSTYLEURL = %ATTACHURL%/centerpageborder.cssYou can write this line in [[TWiki/TWikiPreferences]], in [[Main/WebPreferences]], in your user topic or on a single page.
.css
file, you need to set the image to the absolute url: <style type="text/css" media="all"> #patternScreen { background-image:url("%ATTACHURLPATH%/gradient_page.gif"); background-repeat:repeat-x; } </style>You can always write a
<style>
in a topic - all current browsers support this - but the page won't validate as valid XHTML.