{"id":302,"date":"2011-05-25T00:06:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T10:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymonkeydo.com\/?p=302"},"modified":"2020-05-03T16:34:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T02:34:59","slug":"centering-wo-absolute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymonkeydo.com\/centering-wo-absolute\/","title":{"rendered":"Centering w\/o Absolute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Problem:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I needed to add some jquery popups to my code, but the popup appeared at the very top outside the viewing area. \u00a0The popup uses absolute positioning and so it is <a title=\"Absolute inside Floating\" href=\"http:\/\/mymonkeydo.com\/absolute-positioning-inside-float-or-relative\/\">relative to the nearest element with a &#8220;position&#8221; attribute<\/a>. \u00a0Since I centered my page with the following code, I didn&#8217;t have a nearest element with a &#8220;position&#8221; attribute so the popup was relative to the document. \u00a0And the document was just a sliver at the top because the elements within it were positioned absolutely&#8230; \u00a0here&#8217;s I mean:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_314\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-314\" style=\"width: 491px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mymonkeydo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/css.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-314  \" title=\"Body area with Absolute Positioning\" src=\"https:\/\/mymonkeydo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/css-1024x285.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mymonkeydo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/css-1024x285.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mymonkeydo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/css-300x84.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mymonkeydo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/css-768x214.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mymonkeydo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/css.jpg 1109w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The yellow highlight is the body tag.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Using Firebug, you can see, the yellow highlighted area is the width\/height of my body element (it&#8217;s actually the margin and the width\/height is zero). \u00a0So the popup appeared in that area instead of the entire page.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Solution:<\/h2>\n<p>The quick solution would be to change this \u00a0code:<\/p>\n<pre>#Table_01 {\n    position:absolute;\n    left:50%;\n    top:0px;\n    height:auto;\n    margin-left:-500px;\n    width:1025px;\n    background-image:url(..\/images\/expand.png);\n    background-position:top;\n    background-repeat:repeat-y;\n}<\/pre>\n<p>To the following code. \u00a0The following code doesn&#8217;t use absolute, instead it uses display: table and margin: 0px auto;<\/p>\n<pre>#Table_01 {\n    display: table;\n    margin: 0px auto;\n    width:1025px;\n    background-image:url(..\/images\/expand.png);\n    background-position:top;\n    background-repeat:repeat-y;\n}<\/pre>\n<p>And of course, we need some special code for our special browser Internet Explorer:<\/p>\n<pre><!--[if lt IE 8]&gt;-->\n        \nbody { text-align: center; }\nbody * { text-align: left; }\n#Table_01 {\n    zoom: 1;\n\tdisplay: inline;\n}\n\n<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table_01 <\/strong>is the first element inside of the <strong>Body <\/strong>tag. \u00a0For a full explanation head on to where i found the solution. \u00a0Also do not forget the <a title=\"DOC TYPE or Die\" href=\"http:\/\/mymonkeydo.com\/doc-type-or-die\/\">Doc Type<\/a> for IE to work propery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,34],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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