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

If you don't know the width of the element you can use this code:

    

        I am some centered shrink-to-fit content! 

        tum te tum
    

Demo at fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/wrh7a21r/

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1777282/1136132