You basically need to set top and left to 50% to center the left-top corner of the div. You also need to set the margin-top and margin-left to the negative half of the div’s height and width to shift the center towards the middle of the div. Thus, provided a <!DOCTYPE html> (standards mode), this should do: Or, if you don’t care about centering vertically and old … Read more
The best and most flexible way The main trick in this demo is that in the normal flow of elements going from top to bottom, so the margin-top: auto is set to zero. However, an absolutely positioned element acts the same for distribution of free space, and similarly can be centered vertically at the specified top and bottom (does not work … Read more
there are some mistakes in your code – the first: you havn’t closed you p-tag: next: p stands for ‘paragraph’ and is a block-element (so it’s causing a line-break). what you wanted to use there is a span, wich is just an inline-element for formatting: but if you just want to add a style to your link, why don’t … Read more
It should work, I tested it in your site.
The best approach in modern browsers is to use flexbox: Some browsers will need vendor prefixes. For older browsers without flexbox support (e.g. IE 9 and lower), you’ll need to implement a fallback solution using one of the older methods. Recommended Reading Browser support A Guide to Flexbox Using CSS Flexible Boxes
It is working. The problem is you’re centering a div, which is a block-level element by default, and which therefore occupies 100% width of its parent (body, in this case). So there’s no space to move horizontally, hence no space to center. For an illustration see this revised demo, which has an added border around … Read more
I’m having a problem centering an element that has the attribute position set to absolute. Does anyone know why the images are not centered? Run code snippetExpand snippet
I’m having a problem centering an element that has the attribute position set to absolute. Does anyone know why the images are not centered?
Below is the best all-around solution I could build to vertically and horizontally center a fixed-width, flexible height content box. It was tested and worked for recent versions of Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and Safari. Run code snippetExpand snippet View A Working Example With Dynamic Content I built in some dynamic content to test the flexibility and would … Read more
You can apply this CSS to the inner <div>: Of course, you don’t have to set the width to 50%. Any width less than the containing <div> will work. The margin: 0 auto is what does the actual centering. If you are targeting Internet Explorer 8 (and later), it might be better to have this instead: It … Read more