Did you try David Hucklesby's solution of changing the margin to
margin: auto; instead of margin: 0 auto; ?

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:29 PM, MiB <digital.disc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 1 okt 2013 15.10 Chris Rockwell:
>
>> If absolute positioning is an option, a simple, clean way is:
>>
>> .centeredElement {
>>   position: absolute;
>>   margin: 0 auto;
>>   left: 0;
>>   right: 0;
>>   top: 0;
>>   bottom: 0;
>>   height: 300px;
>>   width: 300px;
>> }
>
>
> Ok, so now I tried this with only the rules above and only one element in a 
> HTML5 document, a div with the class "centeredElement" and it's not working 
> in Firefox 23 either. The div is simply rendered at the top of the page at 0 
> position and goes exactly 300px down. Perhaps not very surprising.
>
> A similar technique that does work is to replace with these rules:
>
>   margin-top:-150px;
>   top: 50%;
>
> which works fine if the height isn't unknown. Usually height of an element 
> isn't known so this is still of limited value.
>
> Clearly you left out something in your first post as your online example does 
> seem to center vertically in Firefox. Please analyze this example of yours 
> and repost what you think is the real solution.
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