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I want to put an HTML element in the middle of the page, horizontally and vertically, but I'm having a hard time making it align even horizontally. I want to center the div "content". Here is my css:
#background
{
position:absolute;
width:100%;
height:100%;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
left:0px;
right:0px;
z-index:1;
text-align: center;
}
#content
{
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
width: 200px;
z-index: 2;
position: absolute;
}
And here is my HTML:
<html>
<head>
<link REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="style/myStyle.css">
</head>
<body style="padding:0px; margin:0px; overflow:hidden;">
<div id="background"><img src="images/backgroundimage.png" width="100%" height="100%">
</div>
<div id="content">
<p>Here is some content</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Since the div has to be positioned as absolute, doing this:
margin: 0 auto;
Won't work. I'm not sure what to do. Also, I want it in the center of the page vertically. Help is appreciated, thanks.
Edit: I need the background to be in a separate div so that it's re-sizable, and the content doesn't show if the position is relative.
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Using the <center></center> tags One way to center text or put it in the middle of the page is to enclose it within <center></center> tags. Inserting this text within HTML code would yield the following result: Center this text!
This tag has been deprecated in HTML 4 (and XHTML 1) in favor of the CSS text-align property, which can be applied to the <div> element or to an individual <p> . For centering blocks, use other CSS properties like margin-left and margin-right and set them to auto (or set margin to 0 auto ).
To center align text in table cells, use the CSS property text-align. The <table> tag align attribute was used before, but HTML5 deprecated the attribute. Do not use it. So, use CSS to align text in table cells.
<html>
<body>
<div id="background">
<div id="content">
<p>Here is some content</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
A better structure for put contents on the middle,without use JQuery:
#background{
background: url(images/backgroundimage.png) top no-repeat;
width:100%;
height:100%;
position:relative;
}
#content{
position:absolute;
top:50%;
left:50%;
width :200px;
height:200px;
margin-left:-100px;
margin-top:-100px;
}
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