How to make an image center vertically horizontally inside a bigger div

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I have a div 200 x 200 px  I want to place a 50 x 50 px image right in the middle of the div    How can it be done   I am able to get it centered horizontally by using text-align  center for the div  But vertical alignment is the issue

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Vertical-align is one of the most misused css styles. It doesn't work how you might expect on elements that are not td's or css "display: table-cell".

This is a very good post on the matter. http://phrogz.net/CSS/vertical-align/index.html

The most common methods to acheive what you're looking for are:

padding top/bottom
position absolute
line-height

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in the div  style  text-align center  line-height 200px

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You can center an image horizontally and vertically with the code below  works in IE FF   It will put the top edge of the image at exactly 50  of the browser height  and the margin-top pulling half the height of the image up  will center it perfectly    lt style type  text css  gt       middle  position  absolute  top  50       for explorer only        middle id   vertical-align  middle  width  100              inner  position  relative  top  -50      for explorer only     lt  style gt     lt body style  background-color  eeeeee  gt       lt div id  middle  gt           lt div id  inner  align  center  style  margin-top    px  gt     the number will be half the height of your image  so for example if the height is 500px then you will put 250px for the margin-top                 lt img src       height       width         gt           lt  div gt       lt  div gt   lt  body gt

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Typically  I ll set the line-height to be 200px   Usually does the trick

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I love jumping on old bandwagons   Here s a 2015 update to this answer   I started using CSS3 transform to do my dirty work for positioning   This allows you to not have to make any extra HTML  you don t have to do math  finding half-widths of things  you can use it on any element   Here s an example  with fiddle at the end    Your HTML    lt div class  bigDiv  gt       lt div class  smallDiv  gt       lt  div gt   lt  div gt    With accompanying CSS    bigDiv       width 200px      height 200px      background-color  efefef      position relative     smallDiv       width 50px      height 50px      background-color  cc0000      position absolute      top 50       left 50       transform translate -50   -50        What I do a lot these days is I will give a class to things I want centered and just re-use that class every time  For example    lt div class  bigDiv  gt       lt div class  smallDiv centerThis  gt       lt  div gt   lt  div gt    css   bigDiv       width 200px      height 200px      background-color  efefef      position relative     smallDiv       width 50px      height 50px      background-color  cc0000     centerThis       position absolute      top 50       left 50       transform translate -50   -50        This way  I will always be able to center something in it s container   You just have to make sure that the thing you want centered is in a container that has a position defined   Here s a fiddle  BTW  This works for centering BIGGER divs inside SMALLER divs as well

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I would set your larger div with position relative  then for your image do this   img classname     position absolute     top 50      left 50      margin-top -25px     margin-left -25px      This only works because you know the dimensions of both the image and the containing div  This will also let you have other items within the containing div    where solutions like using line-height will not   EDIT  Note    your margins are negative half of the size of the image

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We can easily achieve this using flex  no need for background-image    x000D   x000D   lt  DOCTYPE html gt  x000D   lt html gt  x000D   lt head gt  x000D      lt style gt  x000D         image-wrapper  x000D           width 500px  x000D           height 500px  x000D           border 1px solid  333  x000D           display flex  x000D           justify-content center  x000D           align-items center  x000D          x000D      lt  style gt  x000D   lt  head gt  x000D   lt body gt  x000D   x000D   lt div id  image-wrapper  gt  x000D   lt img id  myImage  src  http   blog w3c br wp-content uploads 2013 03 css31-213x300 png  gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   lt  body gt  x000D   lt  html gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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in the div  style  text-align center  line-height 200px

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Typically  I ll set the line-height to be 200px   Usually does the trick

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x000D   x000D  div   x000D    position  absolute  x000D     x000D    border  3px solid green  x000D    width  200px  x000D    height  200px  x000D    x000D   x000D  img    x000D    position  relative  x000D     x000D    border  3px solid red  x000D    width  50px  x000D    height  50px  x000D    x000D   x000D   center       x000D    top  50   x000D    left  50   x000D    transform  translate -50   -50    x000D    -ms-transform  translate -50   -50       IE 9    x000D    -webkit-transform  translate -50   -50       Chrome  Safari  Opera    x000D    x000D   lt div class  center  gt  x000D     lt img class  center  src  http   placeholders org 250 000 fff    gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    Related  Center a image

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You can set position of image is align center horizontal by this   imageId      display  block     margin-left  auto     margin-right auto

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A simple and elegant solution that works for me everytime    lt div gt       lt p style  text-align center  gt  lt img gt Image here lt  img gt  lt  p gt   lt  div gt

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here s another method to center everything within anything   Working Fiddle  HTML   simple as ever    lt div class  Container  gt       lt div class  Content  gt    this can be an img  span  or everything else           I m the Content      lt  div gt   lt  div gt    CSS    Container       text-align  center          Container before               content              height  100           display  inline-block          vertical-align  middle          Content       display  inline-block      vertical-align  middle      Benefits  The Container and Content height are unknown   Centering without specific negative margin  without setting the line-height  so it works well with multiple line of text  and without a script  also Works great with CSS transitions

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another way is to create a table with valign  of course  This would work regardless of you knowing the div s height or not    lt div gt      lt table width  100   height  100   align  center  valign  center  gt      lt tr gt  lt td gt         lt img src  foo jpg  alt  foo    gt      lt  td gt  lt  tr gt      lt  table gt   lt  div gt    but you should always stick to just css whenever possible

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Use Flexbox    outerDiv     display  flex    flex-direction  column    justify-content  center      Centering y-axis      align-items  center     Centering x-axis

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If you know the size of the parent div and the image  you can just use absolute positioning

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sleepy You can easily do this using the following attributes    x000D   x000D   content   x000D    display  flex  x000D    align-items  center  x000D    width  200px  x000D    height  200px  x000D    border  1px solid red  x000D    x000D   x000D   myImage   x000D    display  block  x000D    width  50px  x000D    height  50px    x000D    margin  auto  x000D    border  1px solid yellow  x000D    x000D   lt div id  content  gt  x000D     lt img id  myImage  src  http   blog w3c br wp-content uploads 2013 03 css31-213x300 png  gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    References  W3

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If you know the size of the parent div and the image  you can just use absolute positioning

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Personally  I d place it as the background image within the div  the CSS for that being    demo       background  url bg apple little gif  no-repeat center center      height  200px      width  200px       Assumes a div with id  demo  as you are already specifying height and width adding a background shouldn t be an issue   Let the browser take the strain

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I ve found that Valamas  and Lepu s answers above are the most straightforward answers that deal with images of unknown size  or of known size that you d rather not hard-code into your CSS  I just have a few small tweaks  remove irrelevant styles  size it to 200px to match the question  and add max-height max-width to handle images that may be too large   div image-thumbnail       width  200px      height  200px      line-height  200px      text-align  center    div image-thumbnail img       vertical-align  middle      max-height  200px      max-width  200px

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If you know the size of the parent div and the image  you can just use absolute positioning

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This works correctly   display  block  margin-left  auto  margin-right  auto    else try this if the above only gives you horizontal centering    outerContainer      position  relative      innerContainer      width  50px    your image element width here    height  50px    your image element height here    overflow  auto     margin  auto     position  absolute     top  0  left  0  bottom  0  right  0

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thanks to everyone else for the clues   I used this method  div image-thumbnail       width  85px      height  85px      line-height  85px      display  inline-block      text-align  center    div image-thumbnail img       vertical-align  middle

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Working in old browsers  IE    8   Absolute position in combination with automatic margin permits to center an element horizontally and vertically  The element position could be based on a parent element position using relative positioning  View Result  img       position  absolute      margin  auto      top  0      left  0      right  0      bottom  0

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This works correctly   display  block  margin-left  auto  margin-right  auto    else try this if the above only gives you horizontal centering    outerContainer      position  relative      innerContainer      width  50px    your image element width here    height  50px    your image element height here    overflow  auto     margin  auto     position  absolute     top  0  left  0  bottom  0  right  0

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Personally  I d place it as the background image within the div  the CSS for that being    demo       background  url bg apple little gif  no-repeat center center      height  200px      width  200px       Assumes a div with id  demo  as you are already specifying height and width adding a background shouldn t be an issue   Let the browser take the strain

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Use positioning  The following worked for me   div      display block      overflow hidden      width  200px       height  200px        position  relative    div img      width  50px       height  50px         top  50       left  50       bottom  50       right  50       position  absolute

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Working in old browsers  IE    8   Absolute position in combination with automatic margin permits to center an element horizontally and vertically  The element position could be based on a parent element position using relative positioning  View Result  img       position  absolute      margin  auto      top  0      left  0      right  0      bottom  0

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Use Flexbox    outerDiv     display  flex    flex-direction  column    justify-content  center      Centering y-axis      align-items  center     Centering x-axis

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I love jumping on old bandwagons   Here s a 2015 update to this answer   I started using CSS3 transform to do my dirty work for positioning   This allows you to not have to make any extra HTML  you don t have to do math  finding half-widths of things  you can use it on any element   Here s an example  with fiddle at the end    Your HTML    lt div class  bigDiv  gt       lt div class  smallDiv  gt       lt  div gt   lt  div gt    With accompanying CSS    bigDiv       width 200px      height 200px      background-color  efefef      position relative     smallDiv       width 50px      height 50px      background-color  cc0000      position absolute      top 50       left 50       transform translate -50   -50        What I do a lot these days is I will give a class to things I want centered and just re-use that class every time  For example    lt div class  bigDiv  gt       lt div class  smallDiv centerThis  gt       lt  div gt   lt  div gt    css   bigDiv       width 200px      height 200px      background-color  efefef      position relative     smallDiv       width 50px      height 50px      background-color  cc0000     centerThis       position absolute      top 50       left 50       transform translate -50   -50        This way  I will always be able to center something in it s container   You just have to make sure that the thing you want centered is in a container that has a position defined   Here s a fiddle  BTW  This works for centering BIGGER divs inside SMALLER divs as well

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I would set your larger div with position relative  then for your image do this   img classname     position absolute     top 50      left 50      margin-top -25px     margin-left -25px      This only works because you know the dimensions of both the image and the containing div  This will also let you have other items within the containing div    where solutions like using line-height will not   EDIT  Note    your margins are negative half of the size of the image

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another way is to create a table with valign  of course  This would work regardless of you knowing the div s height or not    lt div gt      lt table width  100   height  100   align  center  valign  center  gt      lt tr gt  lt td gt         lt img src  foo jpg  alt  foo    gt      lt  td gt  lt  tr gt      lt  table gt   lt  div gt    but you should always stick to just css whenever possible

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You can center an image horizontally and vertically with the code below  works in IE FF   It will put the top edge of the image at exactly 50  of the browser height  and the margin-top pulling half the height of the image up  will center it perfectly    lt style type  text css  gt       middle  position  absolute  top  50       for explorer only        middle id   vertical-align  middle  width  100              inner  position  relative  top  -50      for explorer only     lt  style gt     lt body style  background-color  eeeeee  gt       lt div id  middle  gt           lt div id  inner  align  center  style  margin-top    px  gt     the number will be half the height of your image  so for example if the height is 500px then you will put 250px for the margin-top                 lt img src       height       width         gt           lt  div gt       lt  div gt   lt  body gt

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This worked for me  Add this to image css   img      display  block     margin  auto

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here s another method to center everything within anything   Working Fiddle  HTML   simple as ever    lt div class  Container  gt       lt div class  Content  gt    this can be an img  span  or everything else           I m the Content      lt  div gt   lt  div gt    CSS    Container       text-align  center          Container before               content              height  100           display  inline-block          vertical-align  middle          Content       display  inline-block      vertical-align  middle      Benefits  The Container and Content height are unknown   Centering without specific negative margin  without setting the line-height  so it works well with multiple line of text  and without a script  also Works great with CSS transitions

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I had this issue in HTML5 using CSS3 and my image was centered as such within the DIV    oh yes  I can t forget how I had to add the height to show the image    for a while I wondered where it was until I did this  I don t think the position and display are necessary   background-image  url     Images 01 png        background-repeat no-repeat  background-position center  position relative  display block  height 60px

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I ve found that Valamas  and Lepu s answers above are the most straightforward answers that deal with images of unknown size  or of known size that you d rather not hard-code into your CSS  I just have a few small tweaks  remove irrelevant styles  size it to 200px to match the question  and add max-height max-width to handle images that may be too large   div image-thumbnail       width  200px      height  200px      line-height  200px      text-align  center    div image-thumbnail img       vertical-align  middle      max-height  200px      max-width  200px

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The best way to center an image both vertically and horizontally  is to use two containers  and apply the following properties    The outher container   should have display  table    The inner container   should have display  table-cell  should have vertical-align  middle  should have text-align  center    A demo   x000D   x000D   outer-container   x000D      display  table  x000D      width  80      can be any width    x000D      height  120px     can be any height    x000D      background   ccc  x000D    x000D   x000D   inner-container   x000D      display  table-cell  x000D      vertical-align  middle  x000D      text-align  center  x000D    x000D   x000D   inner-container img   x000D      background   fff  x000D      padding   10px  x000D      border   1px solid  000  x000D    x000D   lt div class  outer-container  gt  x000D      lt div class  inner-container  gt  x000D        lt img src  http   s gravatar com avatar bf4cc94221382810233575862875e687 r x amp s 50    gt  x000D      lt  div gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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https   www w3 org Style Examples 007 center en html  IMG displayed     display  block    margin-left  auto    margin-right  auto      lt IMG class  displayed  src       alt       gt

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easy  img       transform  translate 50  50

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I would set your larger div with position relative  then for your image do this   img classname     position absolute     top 50      left 50      margin-top -25px     margin-left -25px      This only works because you know the dimensions of both the image and the containing div  This will also let you have other items within the containing div    where solutions like using line-height will not   EDIT  Note    your margins are negative half of the size of the image

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In CSS do it as   img      display table-cell    vertical-align middle    margin auto

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container   height  200px  width  200px  float left  position relative     children-with-img   position  absolute  width 50px  height 50px  left 50   top 50   transform translate -50

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Typically  I ll set the line-height to be 200px   Usually does the trick

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I ve been trying to get an image to be centered vertically and horizontally within a circle shape using hmtl and css   After combining several points from this thread  here s what I came up with  jsFiddle  Here s another example of this within a three column layout  jsFiddle  CSS    circle   width  100px  height  100px  background   A7A9AB  -moz-border-radius  50px  -webkit-border-radius  50px  border-radius  50px  margin  0 auto  position  relative      images   position  absolute  margin  auto  top  0  left  0  right  0  bottom  0      HTML    lt div id  circle  gt   lt img class  images  src  https   png icons8 com facebook-like-filled ios7 50    gt   lt  div gt

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This works for me     lt body gt     lt table id  table-foo  gt       lt tr gt  lt td gt           lt img src  foo png    gt        lt  td gt  lt  tr gt     lt  table gt   lt  body gt   lt style type  text css  gt    html  body       height  100          table-foo       width  100       height  100       text-align  center      vertical-align  middle         table-foo img       display  block      margin  0 auto       lt  style gt

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in the div  style  text-align center  line-height 200px

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https   www w3 org Style Examples 007 center en html  IMG displayed     display  block    margin-left  auto    margin-right  auto      lt IMG class  displayed  src       alt       gt

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thanks to everyone else for the clues   I used this method  div image-thumbnail       width  85px      height  85px      line-height  85px      display  inline-block      text-align  center    div image-thumbnail img       vertical-align  middle

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Vertical-align is one of the most misused css styles. It doesn't work how you might expect on elements that are not td's or css "display: table-cell".

This is a very good post on the matter. http://phrogz.net/CSS/vertical-align/index.html

The most common methods to acheive what you're looking for are:

padding top/bottom
position absolute
line-height

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Vertical-align is one of the most misused css styles. It doesn't work how you might expect on elements that are not td's or css "display: table-cell".

This is a very good post on the matter. http://phrogz.net/CSS/vertical-align/index.html

The most common methods to acheive what you're looking for are:

padding top/bottom
position absolute
line-height

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Here try this out    x000D   x000D   parentdiv   x000D   height  400px  x000D   border  2px solid  cccccc  x000D    background   efefef  x000D   position  relative  x000D    x000D   childcontainer   x000D   position  absolute  x000D   left  50   x000D   top  50   x000D    x000D   childdiv   x000D   width  150px  x000D   height 150px  x000D   background  lightgreen  x000D   border-radius  50   x000D   border  2px solid green  x000D   margin-top  -50   x000D   margin-left  -50   x000D    x000D   lt div class  parentdiv  gt  x000D     lt div class  childcontainer  gt  x000D        lt div class  childdiv  gt  x000D        lt  div gt  x000D     lt  div gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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Personally  I d place it as the background image within the div  the CSS for that being    demo       background  url bg apple little gif  no-repeat center center      height  200px      width  200px       Assumes a div with id  demo  as you are already specifying height and width adding a background shouldn t be an issue   Let the browser take the strain

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This worked for me  Add this to image css   img      display  block     margin  auto

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I would set your larger div with position relative  then for your image do this   img classname     position absolute     top 50      left 50      margin-top -25px     margin-left -25px      This only works because you know the dimensions of both the image and the containing div  This will also let you have other items within the containing div    where solutions like using line-height will not   EDIT  Note    your margins are negative half of the size of the image

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We can easily achieve this using flex  no need for background-image    x000D   x000D   lt  DOCTYPE html gt  x000D   lt html gt  x000D   lt head gt  x000D      lt style gt  x000D         image-wrapper  x000D           width 500px  x000D           height 500px  x000D           border 1px solid  333  x000D           display flex  x000D           justify-content center  x000D           align-items center  x000D          x000D      lt  style gt  x000D   lt  head gt  x000D   lt body gt  x000D   x000D   lt div id  image-wrapper  gt  x000D   lt img id  myImage  src  http   blog w3c br wp-content uploads 2013 03 css31-213x300 png  gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   lt  body gt  x000D   lt  html gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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another way is to create a table with valign  of course  This would work regardless of you knowing the div s height or not    lt div gt      lt table width  100   height  100   align  center  valign  center  gt      lt tr gt  lt td gt         lt img src  foo jpg  alt  foo    gt      lt  td gt  lt  tr gt      lt  table gt   lt  div gt    but you should always stick to just css whenever possible

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Another way  not mentioned here yet  is with Flexbox   Just set the following rules on the container div   display  flex  justify-content  center     align horizontal    align-items  center     align vertical      FIDDLE   x000D   x000D  div   x000D    width  200px  x000D    height  200px  x000D    border  1px solid green  x000D    display  flex  x000D    justify-content  center  x000D       align horizontal    x000D    align-items  center  x000D       align vertical    x000D    x000D   lt div gt  x000D     lt img src  http   lorempixel com 50 50 food  alt      gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    A good place to start with Flexbox to see some of it s features and get syntax for maximum browser support is flexyboxes   Also  browser support nowadays is quite good  caniuse  For cross-browser compatibility for display  flex and align-items  you can use the following   display  -webkit-box  display  -webkit-flex  display  -moz-box  display  -ms-flexbox  display  flex  -webkit-flex-align  center  -ms-flex-align  center  -webkit-align-items  center  align-items  center

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Personally  I d place it as the background image within the div  the CSS for that being    demo       background  url bg apple little gif  no-repeat center center      height  200px      width  200px       Assumes a div with id  demo  as you are already specifying height and width adding a background shouldn t be an issue   Let the browser take the strain

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Simply set image margin auto as shown below   img   margin auto   width 50    height auto      Check these example

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If you know the size of the parent div and the image  you can just use absolute positioning

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container   height  200px  width  200px  float left  position relative     children-with-img   position  absolute  width 50px  height 50px  left 50   top 50   transform translate -50

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x000D   x000D  div   x000D    position  absolute  x000D     x000D    border  3px solid green  x000D    width  200px  x000D    height  200px  x000D    x000D   x000D  img    x000D    position  relative  x000D     x000D    border  3px solid red  x000D    width  50px  x000D    height  50px  x000D    x000D   x000D   center       x000D    top  50   x000D    left  50   x000D    transform  translate -50   -50    x000D    -ms-transform  translate -50   -50       IE 9    x000D    -webkit-transform  translate -50   -50       Chrome  Safari  Opera    x000D    x000D   lt div class  center  gt  x000D     lt img class  center  src  http   placeholders org 250 000 fff    gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    Related  Center a image

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This is coming a bit late  but here s a solution I use to vertical align elements within a parent div    This is useful for when you know the size of the container div  but not that of the contained image   this is frequently the case when working with lightboxes or image carousels    Here s the styling you should try    container div       display table-cell     vertical-align middle      height 200px     width 200px       img         Apply any styling here

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Another way  not mentioned here yet  is with Flexbox   Just set the following rules on the container div   display  flex  justify-content  center     align horizontal    align-items  center     align vertical      FIDDLE   x000D   x000D  div   x000D    width  200px  x000D    height  200px  x000D    border  1px solid green  x000D    display  flex  x000D    justify-content  center  x000D       align horizontal    x000D    align-items  center  x000D       align vertical    x000D    x000D   lt div gt  x000D     lt img src  http   lorempixel com 50 50 food  alt      gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    A good place to start with Flexbox to see some of it s features and get syntax for maximum browser support is flexyboxes   Also  browser support nowadays is quite good  caniuse  For cross-browser compatibility for display  flex and align-items  you can use the following   display  -webkit-box  display  -webkit-flex  display  -moz-box  display  -ms-flexbox  display  flex  -webkit-flex-align  center  -ms-flex-align  center  -webkit-align-items  center  align-items  center

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another way is to create a table with valign  of course  This would work regardless of you knowing the div s height or not    lt div gt      lt table width  100   height  100   align  center  valign  center  gt      lt tr gt  lt td gt         lt img src  foo jpg  alt  foo    gt      lt  td gt  lt  tr gt      lt  table gt   lt  div gt    but you should always stick to just css whenever possible

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I have a gallery of images for which I don t know the exact heights or widths of images beforhand  I just know that they are smaller than the div in which they are going to be contained   By doing a combination of line-height settings on the container and using vertical-align middle on the image element  I finally got it to work on FF 3 5  Safari 4 0 and IE7 0 using the following HTML markup and the following CSS   The HTML Markup   lt div id  gallery  gt       lt div class  painting  gt           lt a href  Painting Details 2  gt               lt img src   Content Images Paintings Thumbnail painting 00002 jpg    gt           lt  a gt       lt  div gt       lt div class  painting  gt                   lt  div gt            lt  div gt    The CSS  div painting       float left       height 138px     fixed dimensions        width  138px       border  solid 1px white      background-color  F5F5F5        line-height 138px          text-align center          div painting a img               border none          vertical-align middle

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The best way to center an image both vertically and horizontally  is to use two containers  and apply the following properties    The outher container   should have display  table    The inner container   should have display  table-cell  should have vertical-align  middle  should have text-align  center    A demo   x000D   x000D   outer-container   x000D      display  table  x000D      width  80      can be any width    x000D      height  120px     can be any height    x000D      background   ccc  x000D    x000D   x000D   inner-container   x000D      display  table-cell  x000D      vertical-align  middle  x000D      text-align  center  x000D    x000D   x000D   inner-container img   x000D      background   fff  x000D      padding   10px  x000D      border   1px solid  000  x000D    x000D   lt div class  outer-container  gt  x000D      lt div class  inner-container  gt  x000D        lt img src  http   s gravatar com avatar bf4cc94221382810233575862875e687 r x amp s 50    gt  x000D      lt  div gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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I ve been trying to get an image to be centered vertically and horizontally within a circle shape using hmtl and css   After combining several points from this thread  here s what I came up with  jsFiddle  Here s another example of this within a three column layout  jsFiddle  CSS    circle   width  100px  height  100px  background   A7A9AB  -moz-border-radius  50px  -webkit-border-radius  50px  border-radius  50px  margin  0 auto  position  relative      images   position  absolute  margin  auto  top  0  left  0  right  0  bottom  0      HTML    lt div id  circle  gt   lt img class  images  src  https   png icons8 com facebook-like-filled ios7 50    gt   lt  div gt

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Typically  I ll set the line-height to be 200px   Usually does the trick

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Vertical-align is one of the most misused css styles. It doesn't work how you might expect on elements that are not td's or css "display: table-cell".

This is a very good post on the matter. http://phrogz.net/CSS/vertical-align/index.html

The most common methods to acheive what you're looking for are:

padding top/bottom
position absolute
line-height

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In CSS do it as   img      display table-cell    vertical-align middle    margin auto

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You can set position of image is align center horizontal by this   imageId      display  block     margin-left  auto     margin-right auto

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This works for me     lt body gt     lt table id  table-foo  gt       lt tr gt  lt td gt           lt img src  foo png    gt        lt  td gt  lt  tr gt     lt  table gt   lt  body gt   lt style type  text css  gt    html  body       height  100          table-foo       width  100       height  100       text-align  center      vertical-align  middle         table-foo img       display  block      margin  0 auto       lt  style gt

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This is coming a bit late  but here s a solution I use to vertical align elements within a parent div    This is useful for when you know the size of the container div  but not that of the contained image   this is frequently the case when working with lightboxes or image carousels    Here s the styling you should try    container div       display table-cell     vertical-align middle      height 200px     width 200px       img         Apply any styling here

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Use positioning  The following worked for me   div      display block      overflow hidden      width  200px       height  200px        position  relative    div img      width  50px       height  50px         top  50       left  50       bottom  50       right  50       position  absolute

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easy  img       transform  translate 50  50

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This is an old solution but browser market shares have advanced enough that you may be able to get by without the IE hack part of it if you are not concerned about degrading for IE7  This works when you know the dimensions of the outer container but may or may not know the dimensions of the inner image      parent       display  table      height  200px     can be percentages  too  like 100         width  200px     can be percentages  too  like 100         child       display  table-cell      vertical-align  middle      margin  0 auto          lt div class  parent  gt        lt div class  child  gt            lt img src  foo png  alt  bar    gt        lt  div gt    lt  div gt

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sleepy You can easily do this using the following attributes    x000D   x000D   content   x000D    display  flex  x000D    align-items  center  x000D    width  200px  x000D    height  200px  x000D    border  1px solid red  x000D    x000D   x000D   myImage   x000D    display  block  x000D    width  50px  x000D    height  50px    x000D    margin  auto  x000D    border  1px solid yellow  x000D    x000D   lt div id  content  gt  x000D     lt img id  myImage  src  http   blog w3c br wp-content uploads 2013 03 css31-213x300 png  gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    References  W3

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Simply set image margin auto as shown below   img   margin auto   width 50    height auto      Check these example

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I had this issue in HTML5 using CSS3 and my image was centered as such within the DIV    oh yes  I can t forget how I had to add the height to show the image    for a while I wondered where it was until I did this  I don t think the position and display are necessary   background-image  url     Images 01 png        background-repeat no-repeat  background-position center  position relative  display block  height 60px

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A simple and elegant solution that works for me everytime    lt div gt       lt p style  text-align center  gt  lt img gt Image here lt  img gt  lt  p gt   lt  div gt

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This is an old solution but browser market shares have advanced enough that you may be able to get by without the IE hack part of it if you are not concerned about degrading for IE7  This works when you know the dimensions of the outer container but may or may not know the dimensions of the inner image      parent       display  table      height  200px     can be percentages  too  like 100         width  200px     can be percentages  too  like 100         child       display  table-cell      vertical-align  middle      margin  0 auto          lt div class  parent  gt        lt div class  child  gt            lt img src  foo png  alt  bar    gt        lt  div gt    lt  div gt

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in the div  style  text-align center  line-height 200px

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Here try this out    x000D   x000D   parentdiv   x000D   height  400px  x000D   border  2px solid  cccccc  x000D    background   efefef  x000D   position  relative  x000D    x000D   childcontainer   x000D   position  absolute  x000D   left  50   x000D   top  50   x000D    x000D   childdiv   x000D   width  150px  x000D   height 150px  x000D   background  lightgreen  x000D   border-radius  50   x000D   border  2px solid green  x000D   margin-top  -50   x000D   margin-left  -50   x000D    x000D   lt div class  parentdiv  gt  x000D     lt div class  childcontainer  gt  x000D        lt div class  childdiv  gt  x000D        lt  div gt  x000D     lt  div gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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I have a gallery of images for which I don t know the exact heights or widths of images beforhand  I just know that they are smaller than the div in which they are going to be contained   By doing a combination of line-height settings on the container and using vertical-align middle on the image element  I finally got it to work on FF 3 5  Safari 4 0 and IE7 0 using the following HTML markup and the following CSS   The HTML Markup   lt div id  gallery  gt       lt div class  painting  gt           lt a href  Painting Details 2  gt               lt img src   Content Images Paintings Thumbnail painting 00002 jpg    gt           lt  a gt       lt  div gt       lt div class  painting  gt                   lt  div gt            lt  div gt    The CSS  div painting       float left       height 138px     fixed dimensions        width  138px       border  solid 1px white      background-color  F5F5F5        line-height 138px          text-align center          div painting a img               border none          vertical-align middle

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