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What's The Best Way of Centering a Div Vertically with CSS

.title_text_only{
position:absolute;
width:100%;
display:none;
z-index:9;
top:50%;
bottom:50%;
text-align:center;
color:#fff;
font-size:18px;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #666;
}

Right now, it doesn’t seem to work. top 50% doesn’t center it vertically. It’s a little to the bottom. It’s as if the top border is 50%.

Answer 1

If you can specify the height of the box, you can use margin-top: -[height / 2]px (fill in [height / 2] and note that most browsers will round fractional pixels up at 100% zoom).

If you can specify the height of its parent, you can do something like this:

parent {
    height: [height]px;
}
child {
    /* Make the element part of the inline flow, as vertical-align isn't supported on block elements */
    display: -moz-inline-box; /* Old Firefox doesn't support inline-block */
    display: inline-block;
    /* IE < 8 doesn't support inline-block on native block-level elements */
    *display: inline;
    *zoom: 1;

    /* The interesting bit */
    line-height: [height]px;
    vertical-align: middle;
}

If the content of the child is expected to wrap onto multiple lines, you can wrap it in a sub-child that resets the line-height.