It’s also possible to do it using div’s and CSS without using px sizes or tables:
<div class="contendor" style="border: 1px solid green; margin: 0; padding: 0; display: table">
<div class="contendor-secundario" style="border: 1px solid yellow; margin: 0; padding: 0; display: table-row">
<div class="columna1" style="border: 1px solid red; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; vertical-align: middle; display: table-cell">columna uno</div>
<div class="columna2" style="border: 1px solid blue; margin: 0; padding: 0; display: table-cell">columna dos,
la cual es bastante
más alta que la anterior,
y además la podemos hacer
todavía más alta
y la columna 1 ya no se centra</div>
</div>
</div>
what happen when you have different image size but whatever the image sizes you want all them in center. normally in jquery gallery case. i am struggling with this one from last two days. any help will be highly appreciated.
Hi, I have posted about 50 post to my blog. Now I have to change my template blog with a new one. I have upload the picture too.
The problem with my new template is my picture that I have uploaded before its not in the position I wanted. I have to re-upload the picture so its fix to my new template. Is there any can help me with this. So the picture that I have upload before its force to (300X300 pixel). Thank you before.
I LOVE YOU!! Ahem, thanks heaps. I was trying to figure out how to place a graphic using absolute position on a centered body container. I realized you made the graphic centered by ‘left: 50%’ and then using my container width I divided by 2 and altered the measurements to get a perfect fit ;). ‘left: 50%’ is a very important element when using absolute position. Dammit, if I only knew this before then I wouldn’t change my design and css code :(. Oh well, you live and learn :D
I want an image in the background of my webpage (top center). Different image on every page.
On top of that I want to have a 1000px wide Div in the center of the page with the content.
I want it all to stay in the middle when I resize the browser-window.
How?
Thank you, Matthew Buchanan! This is perfect — nice and clean, and works for varying image sizes. It works for me in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, and IE 8 and 9.
Thanks for the tutorial, I am trying to place a paragraph below the centralised image, but when I do this the paragraph remains at the top left hand side of the browser window.
/* Make the height 100% */
#container ul li{
display:inline-block;
height:100%;
}
/* Then vertical-align the crap outta it */
#container ul li img{
vertical-align:middle;
}
/* NOTE: The images don’t have fixed sizes either :) This works in Firefox, been using it for a while so I must have cross browser tested it but can’t remember anymore. Give it go! */
Hi Chris – or any genius out there, is there a “responsive” way of doing this? So when you resize your browser using “img{max-width:100%;height:auto}” for the images to resize, is there a way to center it inside a div both vertically and horizontally?
Hi.. Thanks for the tut. I have been referring to css-tricks.com for a ling time for all sorts of different things, and as a developer, your site has been a great resource and helps speed up development of some of my projects. So big thumbs up! :)
You can also use the line-height method; just as you would to vertically align a single line of text.
Set the image’s container to a specific height and also give it a line-height with the same value as the height. Then give the image inside the container a display: inline-block or just inline.
If you also want the image to be centered, since it’s already got a display: inline, you can give the container a text-align: center which will make the image centered, too.
It’s also possible to do it using div’s and CSS without using px sizes or tables:
It’s explained here, but in spanish :(
explination using google page translator.
This is called “The dead center”, or am I wrong?
Thanks, this helps a lot
It’s explained in English here:
http://www.wpdfd.com/editorial/thebox/deadcentre4.html
This was exactly what I needed, thank you.
i was seeing the example, will these work (?) if the container has some margin top.
good one! but the problem is that if you re size the browser you can’t scroll to the top. i.e if i have a menu on top i cant view it!
Why does everyone in the universe write background shorthand wrong?
This is the correct way and the only way that works in ALL browsers that support background shorthand:
background: #FFF url() repeat fixed left top;
/rant
thanks, i agree with you, WHY
Craig, syntactically, you can have your properties in any arrangement:
background: #fff url() fixed left top;
is essentially the same as
background: url() fixed 0 0 #fff;
either way you look at it, it’s doing the same exact thing.
Thanks. This helped me a lot.
Brillant!!
Right? I love this. This made me so happy:
Vertical and right aligned fixed div relative to viewport! #fuckyeah!
With FF, no fixed image size:
.container { text-align:center; height:50%; } .container img { position:relative; top:25%; }IE does not understand ‘top’ in %… :(
Hi,
Thanks a lot frnd! :)
I was searching for the same thing from a long time and now I got the one…
Thanks all for the trick.. I was searching for that for some time..
YOU ARE A KING MAN
I would advice THIS PAGE for anyone whos searching for a solution regarding absolute centering of Image inside a DIV.
WOOOOW!
here is some div positioning i made some time ago, using this method.
HTML
CSS
#beers_food /* wrapper */
{
width:700px;
height:320px;
margin: 0 auto;
background-color:transparent;
position:relative;
}
#beer
{
position:absolute;
top:50%;
right:0;
margin-top:-115px;
width:220px;
height:230px;
text-align:center;
float:right;
background-image:url("../images/bottomBut.png");
border:1px solid #a73101;
-moz-border-radius: 20px;
-webkit-border-radius: 20px;
border-radius:20px ;
-moz-box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #000000;
-webkit-box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #000000;
box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #000000;
}
#food
{
position:absolute;
top:50%;
left:50%;
margin:-115px 0 0 -110px;
width:220px;
height:230px;
text-align:center;
color:white;
float:right;
background-image:url("../images/bottomBut.png");
border:1px solid #a73101;
-moz-border-radius: 20px;
-webkit-border-radius: 20px;
border-radius:20px ;
-moz-box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #000000;
-webkit-box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #000000;
box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #000000;
}
#shows
{
position:absolute;
top:50%;
left:0;
margin-top:-115px;
width:220px;
height:230px;
text-align:center;
float:left;
background-image:url("../images/bottomBut.png");
border:1px solid #a73101;
-moz-border-radius: 20px;
-webkit-border-radius: 20px;
border-radius:20px ;
-moz-box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #000000;
-webkit-box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #000000;
box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #000000;
}
very handy.
Example
what happen when you have different image size but whatever the image sizes you want all them in center. normally in jquery gallery case. i am struggling with this one from last two days. any help will be highly appreciated.
ummm hmmm only javascipt can probably do that i think maybe? O.o
something like:
should center an image with id=”myimage”
given an absolute position of :
and if you wanted to do a bunch of them you would have to make an array maybe and cycle through them? O.o
anyone else?
well done! TY!
Hi there
May I know how you made this website? The layout is just awesome
???
What about a pure CSS solution for vertically centering an image in a div that is POSITION:FIXED
???
Thanks a lot!
Hi, I have posted about 50 post to my blog. Now I have to change my template blog with a new one. I have upload the picture too.
The problem with my new template is my picture that I have uploaded before its not in the position I wanted. I have to re-upload the picture so its fix to my new template. Is there any can help me with this. So the picture that I have upload before its force to (300X300 pixel). Thank you before.
What do you do when the size of the image is unknown?
Good attempt to make new people love css.Keep it up!
I LOVE YOU!! Ahem, thanks heaps. I was trying to figure out how to place a graphic using absolute position on a centered body container. I realized you made the graphic centered by ‘left: 50%’ and then using my container width I divided by 2 and altered the measurements to get a perfect fit ;). ‘left: 50%’ is a very important element when using absolute position. Dammit, if I only knew this before then I wouldn’t change my design and css code :(. Oh well, you live and learn :D
Thanks again and much appreciated.
CHEERS :)
ah – some very handy tricks which definitely helped me out. thanks for sharing!
I want an image in the background of my webpage (top center). Different image on every page.
On top of that I want to have a 1000px wide Div in the center of the page with the content.
I want it all to stay in the middle when I resize the browser-window.
How?
This worked for me to align vertically center. I can’t use half height bacuase i dont know the height. So i used percentage
Saw this one recently:
This one is awesome for image tag.
this one works.. but you have to put a height in the container . that’s bad for me then..
my solution works in ie8
img{display: block; margin: 0 auto;}
Thank you, Matthew Buchanan! This is perfect — nice and clean, and works for varying image sizes. It works for me in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, and IE 8 and 9.
That’s a new one on me, and incredibly helpful. I wonder why it works?
This is awesome!
This is my idea for this
Thanks for the tutorial, I am trying to place a paragraph below the centralised image, but when I do this the paragraph remains at the top left hand side of the browser window.
Is there a way around this?
Based on Chris’ table approach, this worked great for me…
html, body, #wrapper {
height:100%;
width: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
}
#wrapper td {
vertical-align: middle;
text-align: center;
}
.content {
width: 600px;
height: 400px;
background-color: red;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
And the html…
<table id=”wrapper”>
<tr>
<td>
<div class=”content”>content…</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Great article! I love your site, it’s bookmarked : )
I use your method of absolute centering in all my websites.
/* Make the height 100% */
#container ul li{
display:inline-block;
height:100%;
}
/* Then vertical-align the crap outta it */
#container ul li img{
vertical-align:middle;
}
/* NOTE: The images don’t have fixed sizes either :) This works in Firefox, been using it for a while so I must have cross browser tested it but can’t remember anymore. Give it go! */
Better and complete: style for a extensible box with title text and one image inside.
The position: relative and the width are not an obligation.
div.frameStretch {color: #061f4e; font-family: “mafonte”, Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.35; text-align: justify; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; padding: 4px 8px; position: relative; top: 32px; width: 832px; overflow: hidden; border-width: 24px;
-moz-border-image: url(yourimageborder.png) 24 stretch; -moz-border-radius: 24px;
-webkit-border-image: url(yourimageborder2.png) 24 stretch; -webkit-border-radius: 24px;
-o-border-image: url(.yourimageborder.png) 24 stretch; -o-border-radius: 24px;
-ms-border-image: url(yourimageborder.png) 24 stretch; -ms-border-radius: 24px;
border-image: url(yourimageborder.png) 24 fill stretch; border-radius: 24px;
box-pack: center; box-shadow: 0px 1px 3px #122c53; text-shadow: -1px -1px 1px #cccccc, 1px 1px 1px #ffffff;}
/* — For the title in the box — */
div.frameStretch h2 {font-size: 36px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; margin: 0; padding: 0 0 12px;}
/* — To one image inside, vertical align, at right of the box —*/
div.frameStretch img {list-style-position: inside; display: block; margin-top: auto; margin-right: -10px; margin-bottom: auto; padding: 8px 0 8px 8px; position: relative; right: 0; width: 240px; height: 238px; float: right; vertical-align: middle; border-style: none;}
That background image is simply a brilliant kiss technique.
Just wanted to drop a line, to say thanks a lot for this and so many other useful posts.
Hello,
it’s uses basically a how center images , and it can take a server timestamp to start with. The css can also be easily modified to one’s own likings.
http://www.phphunt.com/111/how-to-center-images
Hi Chris – or any genius out there, is there a “responsive” way of doing this? So when you resize your browser using “img{max-width:100%;height:auto}” for the images to resize, is there a way to center it inside a div both vertically and horizontally?
Thank you!
is this supported in IE 7, IE6?
Hi.. Thanks for the tut. I have been referring to css-tricks.com for a ling time for all sorts of different things, and as a developer, your site has been a great resource and helps speed up development of some of my projects. So big thumbs up! :)
thx !
You can also use the line-height method; just as you would to vertically align a single line of text.
Set the image’s container to a specific height and also give it a line-height with the same value as the height. Then give the image inside the container a display: inline-block or just inline.
If you also want the image to be centered, since it’s already got a display: inline, you can give the container a text-align: center which will make the image centered, too.
Blamo!
Thanks a lot, this worked!