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Gareth Redfern
Gareth Redfern
36,217 Points
Posted by Gareth Redfern
Gareth Redfern
36,217 Points

Centre Align An Absolute Positioned Element With Unknown Width

Does anyone have a good solution for this? I came across this article but it doesn't work for me. I have created a Codepen and can get it to work if the element is relatively positioned but not if it is absolute positioned.

2 Answers

Ali M Malik
Ali M Malik
33,293 Points

This always works for me.

.absolute-center {
  margin: auto;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0; left: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0;
}
Gareth Redfern
Gareth Redfern
36,217 Points
Gareth Redfern
Gareth Redfern
36,217 Points

That worked great thank you one to bookmark :)

Yasin Güzeldal
Yasin Güzeldal
15,581 Points

afaik this will only work if the element has a known width

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points

There are some negative consequences when absolute children. Another solution would be to use some Javascript or jQuery to calculate and set some of the positioning elements so it would be more dynamic to whatever content was inside the absolute positioned element.

I tried to replicate it as close as possible.

http://codepen.io/kevink/pen/yhkJd?editors=110