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Vertical centering with CSS

7th January 2003

Lots of people said it couldn’t be done (myself included), but evidently we were wrong. Joe Gillespie shows how to achieve vertical centering with CSS in the latest edition of WPDFD. Via Craig Saila, who also has an experimental piece showing how the height of three divs can be set to the height of the tallest of the three, using javascript.

Posted 7th January 2003 at 10:35 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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