Auto margins don t center image in page

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In this example the image is not centered  Why  My browser is Google Chrome v10 on windows 7  not IE    lt img src   img logo png  style  margin 0px auto    gt

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In my case the problem was that I had set min and max width without width itself

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add display block  and it ll work  Images are inline by default  To clarify  the default width for a block element is auto  which of course fills the entire available width of the containing element   By setting the margin to auto  the browser assigns half the remaining space to margin-left and the other half to margin-right

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put this in the body s css    background  3D668F  then add      display  block      margin  auto   to the img s css

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Whenever we don t add width and add margin auto  I guess it will not work  It s from my experience  Width gives the idea where exactly it needs to provide equal margins

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there is a alternative to margin-left auto  margin-right  auto  or margin 0 auto  for the ones that use position absolute  this is how  you set the left position of the element to 50   left 50    but that will not center it correctly in order for the element to be centered correctly you need to give it a margin of minus half of it s width  that will center your element perfectly   here is an example  http   jsfiddle net 35ERq 3

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Under some circumstances  such as earlier versions of IE  Gecko  Webkit  and inheritance  elements with position relative  will prevent margin 0 auto  from working  even if top  right  bottom  and left aren t set   Setting the element to position static   the default  may fix it under these circumstances  Generally  block level elements with a specified width will respect margin 0 auto  using either relative or static positioning

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img display  flex  max-width  80   margin  auto   This is working for me  You can also use display  table in this case  Moreover  if you don t want to stick to this approach you can use the following  img position  relative  left  50

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You can center auto width div using display table   div  margin  0px auto  float  none  display  table

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I remember someday that I spent a lot of time trying to center a div  using margin  0 auto  I had display  inline-block on it  when I removed it  the div centered correctly  As Ross pointed out  it doesn t work on inline elements

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For a bootstrap button   display  table   margin  0 auto

[css] Auto margins don't center image in page

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