The easiest way would probably be to wrap your ad code in a div:
<div id="googleAd">...google ad code...</div>
then add:
#googleAd { text-align: center; }
to the bottom of your theme’s style sheet (style.css).
You can use a HTML center tag…
<center><div id=”adsense”> put code here </div><center>
or include CSS code using the margin-left attribute to centre it.
<div class=”adsense”> put code here </div>
<style>
.adsense {
margin-left: 50px
}
this is the code i added in the header section, however it didn’t work.
<div class=”adsense”> <script type=”text/javascript”><!–
google_ad_client = “pub-2542975605347305”;
/* 728×90, under banner 8/4/11 */
google_ad_slot = “4287651566”;
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
//–>
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript”
src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js”> </div>
<style>
.adsense
{
margin-left: 50px
}
The center tag is deprecated and really shouldn’t be used anymore.
margin-left will work as long as it’s set to exactly half the remaining space (which in this case would be 116px) while text-align: center, since the div will automatically fill the entire width, will work regardless.
In other words, surround your google ad code in a div with an id or class:
<div id="adsenseAd">...code...</div>
or
<div class="adsenseAd">...code...</div>
then use the id/class to center it using css:
If you use an id:
#adsenseAd { text-align: center; }
or if you use a class:
.adsenseAd { text-align: center; }
You can also use margin-left instead:
If you use an id:
#adsenseAd { margin-left: 116px; }
or if you use a class:
.adsenseAd { margin-left: 116px; }
but you will have to change that value if you ever change the overall width of your site/header/adsense ad.
The css (.adsense { text-align: center; }) should be added to the bottom of your “style.css” file in your theme. You could also add:
<style type="text/css">
.adsense { text-align: center; }
</style>
right before the </head> tag in your theme’s “header.php” file.
Or, if you don’t want to mess with any other files, use:
<div style="text-align: center;">...your google ad code...</div>
bah…
For copy/paste purposes replacing all that ad code with:
<div style="text-align: center;">
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-2542975605347305";
/* 728x90, under banner 8/4/11 */
google_ad_slot = "4287651566";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</div>
will center it.
it worked!!! thanks so much guys! I really appreciate it.
Dear all – I have a similar problem. I want to center the google ad at my site: http://journalismhub.com but I can’t. I have followed all comments above – especially Big Bagel’s comments yet they also did not work. Any suggestions please?
For the record, I am not using amy google ad plugin (i use to not anymore). I am putting them in text in a sidebar widget.
