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center image on a page

I want to place an image in the center of a blank page.

I tried a 3 x 3 table with width and height attributes (which are deprecated anyhow), and did not work.

What is a simple and clever way to achieve this? use css as needed.

stergium

hello.
use this
css (head part)

<style type="text/css">
.centeredImage
{
text-align:center;
margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px;
padding:0px;
}
</style>

(body part)

<p class="centeredImage"><img src="imgName.gif" alt="image description" height="100" width="100"></p>

hope that helps

Lee Wadwell

Kyle Hamilton

You can't center vertically with CSS alone, unless you make it a background image and use background positioning properties.

.centeredimage{

background:url(path/to/img.jpg) center center no-repeat;

}
<body class="centeredimage">
....
</body>

Otherwise you an use JavaScript.

rbudj

#holder {
      position: absolute;
      top: 50%;
      left: 50%;
      margin-top: -300px;
      margin-left: -390px;
      width: 782px;
      background-color: #000000;
}

adjust the with as needed and place your image inside the holder div. This will center the image horizontally and vertically using just css.

Kyle Hamilton

@rbudj: that's really nice. (Though you need to know the dimensions of your image. And you need a height too).

#holder {
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
margin-top: -150px;
margin-left: -300px;
width: 600px;
height:300px;
background-color: #000000;
}

rbudj

Should not need a height unless you prefer, but you will need to adjust the margins to get the exact result you need.

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COBOLdinosaur

A bit of irregular property use (but perfectly standards compliant. Works in Firefox,
but not in IE; and maybe not in other lesser browsers.

<html><head>
<title>center</title>
<style type="text/css">
#thediv {
                display:table;
                width:100%;
                height:100%;
                text-align:center;
                vertical-align:middle;
            }
#thecell    {
                    display:table-cell;
                    width:100%;
                height:100%;
                text-align:center;
                vertical-align:middle;
                }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="thediv">
<div id="thecell">
<img src="beer.png" />
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

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Really just a novelty. The correct way to do it is with a positioned background image.

Cd&

bhomass

ASKER

lot of inputs. prob all work, but this is the simplest and works correctly. I tried it on a div, and will not work without the height:100% setting.