Suppose that I have a &l
You only need to calculate it for IE7 and older (and only if your content doesn't have fixed size). I suggest using HTML conditional comments to limit hack to old IEs that don't support CSS2. For all other browsers use this:
<style type="text/css">
html,body {display:table; height:100%;width:100%;margin:0;padding:0;}
body {display:table-cell; vertical-align:middle;}
div {display:table; margin:0 auto; background:red;}
</style>
<body><div>test<br>test</div></body>
This is the perfect solution. It centers <div>
of any size, and shrink-wraps it to size of its content.
Just in case it is useful to anyone, I put a textbox, button and div all with the same css:
width:200px;
height:20px;
border:solid 1px #000;
padding:2px;
<input id="t" type="text" />
<input id="b" type="button" />
<div id="d"></div>
I tried it in chrome, firefox and ie-edge, I tried with jquery and without, and I tried it with and without box-sizing:border-box
. Always with <!DOCTYPE html>
The results:
Firefox Chrome IE-Edge
with w/o with w/o with w/o box-sizing
$("#t").width() 194 200 194 200 194 200
$("#b").width() 194 194 194 194 194 194
$("#d").width() 194 200 194 200 194 200
$("#t").outerWidth() 200 206 200 206 200 206
$("#b").outerWidth() 200 200 200 200 200 200
$("#d").outerWidth() 200 206 200 206 200 206
$("#t").innerWidth() 198 204 198 204 198 204
$("#b").innerWidth() 198 198 198 198 198 198
$("#d").innerWidth() 198 204 198 204 198 204
$("#t").css('width') 200px 200px 200px 200px 200px 200px
$("#b").css('width') 200px 200px 200px 200px 200px 200px
$("#d").css('width') 200px 200px 200px 200px 200px 200px
$("#t").css('border-left-width') 1px 1px 1px 1px 1px 1px
$("#b").css('border-left-width') 1px 1px 1px 1px 1px 1px
$("#d").css('border-left-width') 1px 1px 1px 1px 1px 1px
$("#t").css('padding-left') 2px 2px 2px 2px 2px 2px
$("#b").css('padding-left') 2px 2px 2px 2px 2px 2px
$("#d").css('padding-left') 2px 2px 2px 2px 2px 2px
document.getElementById("t").getBoundingClientRect().width 200 206 200 206 200 206
document.getElementById("b").getBoundingClientRect().width 200 200 200 200 200 200
document.getElementById("d").getBoundingClientRect().width 200 206 200 206 200 206
document.getElementById("t").offsetWidth 200 206 200 206 200 206
document.getElementById("b").offsetWidth 200 200 200 200 200 200
document.getElementById("d").offsetWidth 200 206 200 206 200 206
If offsetWidth returns 0, you can get element's style width property and search it for a number. "100px" -> 100
/\d*/.exec(MyElement.style.width)
You should use the .offsetWidth and .offsetHeight properties.
Note they belong to the element, not .style
.
var width = document.getElementById('foo').offsetWidth;
Function .getBoundingClientRect() returns dimensions and location of element as floating-point numbers after performing CSS transforms.
> console.log(document.getElementById('id').getBoundingClientRect())
DOMRect {
bottom: 177,
height: 54.7,
left: 278.5,
right: 909.5,
top: 122.3,
width: 631,
x: 278.5,
y: 122.3,
}
also you can use this code:
var divID = document.getElementById("divid");
var h = divID.style.pixelHeight;
element.offsetWidth and element.offsetHeight should do, as suggested in previous post.
However, if you just want to center the content, there is a better way of doing so. Assuming you use xhtml strict DOCTYPE. set the margin:0,auto property and required width in px to the body tag. The content gets center aligned to the page.