How to center a “position: absolute” element

Question

I\'m having a problem centering an element that has the attribute position set to absolute. Does anyone know why the images are not centered?

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Answer 1

    
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see demo on: http://jsfiddle.net/MohammadDayeh/HrZLC/

text-align: center; works with a position: absolute element when adding left: 0; right: 0;