Best (and worst!) ways to center WITHOUT flex or grid

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People like to make fun of how hard it is to center things with CSS, and while we have flex and grid which make it super duper easy these days. Sometimes when someone complains about it, then gets a reply of "it's easy with flexbox", they reply "but what if you can't use flexbox or grid?". It's a dumb reply, but it did get me thinking a little. ⌚ Timestamps 00:00 - Introduction 01:06 - The criteria 02:09 - Technique #1 - line-height 04:52 - Technique #2 - tables 06:58 - Technique #3 - position absolute v1 10:15 - Technique #4 - position absolute v2 12:30 - Technique #5 - padding (with custom properties) #css -- Come hang out with other dev's in my Discord Community 💬 https://discord.gg/nTYCvrK Keep up to date with everything I'm up to ✉ https://www.kevinpowell.co/newsletter Come hang out with me live every Monday on Twitch! 📺 https://www.twitch.tv/kevinpowellcss --- Help support my channel 👨‍🎓 Get a course: https://www.kevinpowell.co/courses 👕 Buy a shirt: https://teespring.com/stores/making-the-internet-awesome 💖 Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kevinpowell --- My editor: VS Code - https://code.visualstudio.com/ --- I'm on some other places on the internet too! If you'd like a behind the scenes and previews of what's coming up on my YouTube channel, make sure to follow me on Instagram and Twitter. Twitter: https://twitter.com/KevinJPowell Codepen: https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/ Github: https://github.com/kevin

Published 2021-08-12 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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