> The first one is better as you are not taking the box out of 
> the flow of 
> the page. Using top and left with absolute positioning will 
> do this... For example if you had a fixed block to align 
> center, then doing the 
> margins with top and left is difficult as you don't know the width of 
> the viewport.

Hi James, 
I am probably lost, why would it matter what width the viewport is, if you
only care about having a box aligned to the
<2please_james>centre</2please_james> that is 80% wide?

<div style="left: 10%; right: 10%;">I am 80% and aligned centre</div>
  

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