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Center an image on top of a div

I have a div with a bunch of stuff in it and what I want to do is place an image, centered, on top of it. My basic layout looks something like this:

<div>
    <img style="display:block; position: absolute; top:50%; left:50%; margin-top:-33px; margin-left:-33px;" src="Images/ajax-loader_001.gif" />
    <!-- a bunch of tables and stuff that doesn't have a conveniently fixed size  -->
</div>

The above will center the image in the screen (the image is 66px x 66px BTW), but I want it centered relative to the parent div and "floating" above it. Is there a purely css way of doing this? Needs to work in IE8 and recent Firefox versions.

Edit: just to clarify - I'm looking to center both horizontally and vertically and on top of the parent.

Solution

  • Just need to put this on your parent div:

    position: relative;