Positioning
element at center of screen

Question

The easy way, if you have a fixed width and height:

#divElement{
    position: absolute;
    top: 50%;
    left: 50%;
    margin-top: -50px;
    margin-left: -50px;
    width: 100px;
    height: 100px;
}

Please don't use inline styles! Here is a working example http://jsfiddle.net/S5bKq/.

With transforms being more ubiquitously supported these days, you can do this without knowing the width/height of the popup

.popup {
    position: fixed;
    top: 50%;
    left: 50%;
    -webkit-transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
    transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}

Easy! JSFiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/LgSZV/

Update: Check out https://css-tricks.com/centering-css-complete-guide/ for a fairly exhaustive guide on CSS centering. Adding it to this answer as it seems to get a lot of eyeballs.

Set the width and height and you're good.

div {
  position: absolute;
  margin: auto;
  top: 0;
  right: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  left: 0;
  width: 200px;
  height: 200px;
}

If you want the element dimensions to be flexible (and don't care about legacy browsers), go with XwipeoutX's answer.

It will work for any object. Even if you don't know the size:

.centered {
  position: fixed;
  top: 50%;
  left: 50%;
  transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}

Now, is more easy with HTML 5 and CSS 3:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>TODO supply a title</title>
        <meta charset="UTF-8">
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
        <style>
            body > div {
                position: absolute;
                top: 0;
                bottom: 0;
                left: 0;
                right: 0;

                display: flex;
                flex-wrap: wrap;
                align-items: center;
                justify-content: center;
            }
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div>
            <div>TODO write content</div>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

Use flex. Much simpler and will work regardless of your div size:

.center-screen {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
  text-align: center;
  min-height: 100vh;
}

 <html>
 <head>
 </head>
 <body>
 <div class="center-screen">
 I'm in the center
 </div>
 </body>
 </html>

Positioning <div> element at center of screen

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