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CSS

Posted by Dean Conway
Dean Conway
3,301 Points

How to Overlap Shapes?

Hi

I am trying to build a basic contact card in HTML & CSS, but for now I am just stripping it back to the basic 3 containers I will need to house the content. For now I just want to focus on how to position the avatar container to sit over the top of where the masthead and about container meet and for it to be exactly horizontally center across that diving line.

I have managed to center the avatar circle horizontally using margin: auto; but not vertically which is what I am stuggaling with.

see my code below..

<div class="container">
  <div class="wrap">

    <div class="hero">

    </div>

    <div class="about">
      <div class="avatar">

      </div>
    </div>


  </div>
</div>

.container {
  width: 100%;
  background-color: grey;
}

.wrap {margin: 0 auto; width: 90%;}

.hero {
    width: 100%;
    height: 700px;
    background: red;

}
.about {
    width: 100%;
    height: 700px;
    background: navy;
    margin: 0 auto;
}

.avatar {
    width: 150px;
    height: 150px;
    background-color: lime;
    border-radius: 50%;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
    position: absolute;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    bottom: 10%;
}