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CSS absolute centering

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By Jamie Barker, Joel Almeida, Ivanka Todorova
| stackoverflow.com
You can reduce the css to this: .absolute-center{ position:absolute; width: 500px; height: 100px; margin: auto; top: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0; left: 0; border: solid 1px red; }; The absolute element with properties like bottom: 0; top: 0; left: 0; right: 0; will fill all the space. So, whats the secret/sorcery here? You are defining the width and height of the element. So, even if he wants to fill all the space he will be limited by your width and height. The secret is the margin: auto, why?
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