How to vertically center a div for all browsers?
How to vertically center a div for all browsers?
Question
I want to center a div vertically with CSS. I don't want tables or JavaScript, but only pure CSS. I found some solutions, but all of them are missing Internet Explorer 6 support.
<body>
<div>Div to be aligned vertically</div>
</body>
How can I center a div vertically in all major browsers, including Internet Explorer 6?
Accepted Answer
Below is the best all-around solution I could build to vertically and horizontally center a fixed-width, flexible height content box. It was tested and working for recent versions of Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and Safari.
.outer {
display: table;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
.middle {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
.inner {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
width: 400px;
/*whatever width you want*/
}<div class="outer">
<div class="middle">
<div class="inner">
<h1>The Content</h1>
<p>Once upon a midnight dreary...</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>View A Working Example With Dynamic Content
I built in some dynamic content to test the flexibility and would love to know if anyone sees any problems with it. It should work well for centered overlays also -- lightbox, pop-up, etc.
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One more I can't see on the list:
.Center-Container {
position: relative;
height: 100%;
}
.Absolute-Center {
width: 50%;
height: 50%;
overflow: auto;
margin: auto;
position: absolute;
top: 0; left: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0;
border: solid black;
}
- Cross-browser (including Internet Explorer 8 - Internet Explorer 10 without hacks!)
- Responsive with percentages and min-/max-
- Centered regardless of padding (without box-sizing!)
heightmust be declared (see Variable Height)- Recommended setting
overflow: autoto prevent content spillover (see Overflow)
The simplest way would be the following 3 lines of CSS:
1) position: relative;
2) top: 50%;
3) transform: translateY(-50%);
Following is an EXAMPLE:
div.outer-div {
height: 170px;
width: 300px;
background-color: lightgray;
}
div.middle-div {
position: relative;
top: 50%;
-webkit-transform: translateY(-50%);
-ms-transform: translateY(-50%);
transform: translateY(-50%);
}<div class='outer-div'>
<div class='middle-div'>
Test text
</div>
</div>Actually you need two div's for vertical centering. The div containing the content must have a width and height.
#container {
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
margin-top: -200px;
/* half of #content height*/
left: 0;
width: 100%;
}
#content {
width: 624px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
height: 395px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
}<div id="container">
<div id="content">
<h1>Centered div</h1>
</div>
</div>Here is the result
Now the flexbox solution is a very easy way for modern browsers, so I recommend this for you:
.container{
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
height: 100%;
background:green;
}
body, html{
height:100%;
}<div class="container">
<div>Div to be aligned vertically</div>
</div>Edit 2020 : only use this if you need to support old browsers like IE8 (which you should refuse to do ). If not, use flexbox.
This is the simplest method I found and I use it all the time (jsFiddle demo here)
Thank Chris Coyier from CSS Tricks for this article.
html, body{
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
.v-wrap{
height: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
text-align: center;
}
.v-wrap:before{
content: "";
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
width: 0;
/* adjust for white space between pseudo element and next sibling */
margin-right: -.25em;
/* stretch line height */
height: 100%;
}
.v-box{
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
white-space: normal;
}<div class="v-wrap">
<article class="v-box">
<p>This is how I've been doing it for some time</p>
</article>
</div>Support starts with IE8.