How can I vertically center text in a dynamically height div?

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The best solution I’ve ever encountered is to make use of the display property and set the wrapper element as a table to allow the usage of vertical-align:middle on the element to be centered:

See this working Fiddle Example!

HTML

<body>
    <div>
        <h1>Text</h1>
    </div>
</body>

CSS

body {width: 100%; height: 100%;}   /* this is just to "view" the div height...*/

div {
    position:absolute; height:100%; width:100%;
    display: table;
}
h1 {
    display: table-cell;
    vertical-align: middle;
    text-align:center;
}

TESTED ON

Windows XP Profissional versão 2002 Service Pack 3

  • Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702
  • Opera 11.62
  • Firefox 3.6.16
  • Safari 5.1.2
  • Google Chrome 18.0.1025.168 m

Windows 7 Home Edition Service Pack 1

  • Internet Explorer 9.0.8112.164211C
  • Opera 11.62
  • Firefox 12.0
  • Safari 5.1.4
  • Google Chrome 18.0.1025.168 m

Linux Ubuntu 12.04

  • Firefox 12.0
  • Chromium 18.0.1025.151 (Developer Build 130497 Linux)

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