May 3, 2012 · What is the difference between position: relative and position: absolute in CSS? And when should you use them?

Absolute positioning positions an element relative to its nearest positioned ancestor. So put position: relative on the container, then for child elements, top and left will be relative to the top-left of the …

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Nov 22, 2009 · I want to place a div (with position:absolute;) element in the center of the window. But I'm having problems doing so, because the width is unknown. I tried the following CSS code, but it needs …

Both position:relative and position:absolute establish containing elements as positioning ascestors. If you need div 3 to be positioned based on div 1 then make it a direct child of div 1.

This works because position: absolute means something like "use top, right, bottom, left to position yourself in relation to the nearest ancestor who has position: absolute or position: relative." This is …

An element with position: absolute; allows you to place any element exactly where you want it to be. You use the positioning attributes top, left, bottom. and right to set the location.

Dec 15, 2011 · Learn how to center an element with "position: absolute" using CSS techniques and examples discussed in this Stack Overflow thread.

1 Another solution without using any height but still fills 100% available height. Checkout this e.g on the codepen. For this html and body should have 100% height. This height is equal to the viewport …

Yep. This is correct... using a "text-align: center;" and a "left: 0; right: 0;" will allow you to absolute position a div while keeping it horizontally centered.