In the example below, #logo
is positioned absolutely and I need it to be horizontally centered within #header
. Normally, I would do a margin:0 auto
for relatively positioned elements but I am stuck here. Can someone show me the way?
JS Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/DeTJH/
HTML
<div id="header">
<div id="logo"></div>
</div>
CSS
#header {
background:black;
height:50px;
width:100%;
}
#logo {
background:red;
height:50px;
position:absolute;
width:50px
}
here is the best practiced method to center a div as position absolute
code --
#header {
background:black;
height:90px;
width:100%;
position:relative; // you forgot this, this is very important
}
#logo {
background:red;
height:50px;
position:absolute;
width:50px;
margin: auto; // margin auto works just you need to put top left bottom right as 0
top:0;
bottom:0;
left:0;
right:0;
}
You will have to assign both left
and right
property 0
value for margin: auto
to center the logo.
So in this case:
#logo {
background:red;
height:50px;
position:absolute;
width:50px;
left: 0;
right: 0;
margin: 0 auto;
}
You might also want to set position: relative
for #header
.
This works because, setting left
and right
to zero will horizontally stretch the absolutely positioned element. Now magic happens when margin
is set to auto
. margin
takes up all the extra space(equally on each side) leaving the content to its specified width
. This results in content becoming center aligned.
Was missing the use of calc
in the answers, which is a cleaner solution.
#logo {
position: absolute;
left: calc(50% - 25px);
height: 50px;
width: 50px;
background: red;
}
Works in most modern browsers: http://caniuse.com/calc
Maybe it's too soon to use it without a fallback, but I thought maybe for future visitors it would be helpful.
In my experience, the best way is right:0;
, left:0;
and margin:0 auto
. This way if the div is wide then you aren't hindered by the left: 50%;
that will offset your div which results in adding negative margins etc.
DEMO http://jsfiddle.net/kevinPHPkevin/DeTJH/4/
#logo {
background:red;
height:50px;
position:absolute;
width:50px;
margin:0 auto;
right:0;
left:0;
}
Its easy, just wrap it in a relative box like so:
<div class="relative">
<div class="absolute">LOGO</div>
</div>
The relative box has a margin: 0 Auto; and, important, a width...
Source: Stackoverflow.com