Our dear friend Robin has a new essay called In Praise of Shadows. Now, before you hop over there looking for nuggets on CSS box shadows, text shadows, and shadow filters… this is not that. It’s an essay …
Adam Argyle has a post over on web.dev digging into this. He starts with the assumption that you need to do vertical centering and horizontal centering. It’s that vertical centering that has traditionally been a bit trickier for folks, particularly …
Andrew Welch had a little CSS challenge the other day to make an ordinary div:
…• centered vertically + horizontally
• scales to fit the viewport w/ a margin around it
• maintains an arbitrary aspect ratio
• No JS
In front-end development, there are often times when I know that I don’t know something. I might know enough to know what CSS to search for, but I have absolutely no idea how to use it or what the right …
This isn’t a comprehensive guide to centering things. We have that!
This is just a little observation about old and new. One of the trickier things related to centering in CSS is when you need to center both vertically and …
Centering things in CSS is the poster child of CSS complaining. Why does it have to be so hard? They jeer. I think the issue isn’t that it’s difficult to do, but in that there so many different ways of …
When it comes to centering things in web design, the more information you have about the element being centered and its parent element, the easier it is. So what if you don’t know anything? It’s still kinda doable.…
html {
width:100%;
height:100%;
background:url(logo.png) center center no-repeat;
}img {
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
width: 500px;
height: 500px;
margin-top: -250px; /* Half the height */
margin-left: -250px; /* Half 