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You can solve the vertical alignment problem pretty easily using display:inline-block

• hpaavola 13y ago
  Not easily. <!doctype html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Foo</title> <style> html {height: 100%;} body {height: 100%;} .mid {display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle;} /*body:before {content: ''; height: 100%; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle;}*/ </style> </head> <body> <div class="mid">vertically aligned</div> </body> </html> would be easily, but you need to uncomment that last rule before it "works", and that is just ugly. And when that last rule is uncommented, viewport now has scrollbar for some reason that I did not have motivation to investigate. Like chii said, that's because CSS is a language for styling, not for layouts.
  • emn13 13y ago
    The extra scrollbar is due to fact that you've set height to 100% but you still have padding on the body tag. Also, unrelatedly, you should remove the space between the body tag and the div tag to avoid font-specific horizontal offsets.
• ratbeard 13y ago
  The problem I've encountered with these kind of solutions are that they're never universally applicable so you have to know a list of solutions and what situations they can be applied. I wish I could remember a inline-block + vertical alignment specific example but two others would be: `margin: 0 auto;` to center horizontally requires knowing the width, and it must be smaller than its parent container. If its not then use: `position: absolute; left: 50%; margin-left: - <width / 2>%`, and make sure parent has a height and position relative. `text-indent: -999em` to hide text (which is admittedly not the best technique) was the cause of our 3d css transform animation running really slow. With dedicated properties to solve these issues you'd hope they could be universally applied and reasoned about.
  • dools 13y ago
    Check out stacklayout.com