How to vertically align an image inside a div?

Question

Question

How can you align an image inside of a containing div?

Example

In my example, I need to vertically center the <img> in the <div> with class ="frame" :

<div class="frame" style="height: 25px;">
    <img src="http://jsfiddle.net/img/logo.png" />
</div>

.frame's height is fixed and image's height is unknown. I can add new elements in .frame if that's the only solution. I'm trying to do this on IE≥7, Webkit, Gecko.

See the jsfiddle here

.frame {
    height: 25px;      /* equals max image height */
    line-height: 25px;
    width: 160px;
    border: 1px solid red;
    
    text-align: center; margin: 1em 0;
}
img {
    background: #3A6F9A;
    vertical-align: middle;
    max-height: 25px;
    max-width: 160px;
}
        

<div class=frame>
   <img src="http://jsfiddle.net/img/logo.png" height=250 />
</div>
<div class=frame>
   <img src="http://jsfiddle.net/img/logo.png" height=25 />
</div>
<div class=frame>
   <img src="http://jsfiddle.net/img/logo.png" height=23 />
</div>
<div class=frame>
   <img src="http://jsfiddle.net/img/logo.png" height=21 />
</div>
<div class=frame>
   <img src="http://jsfiddle.net/img/logo.png" height=19 />
</div>
<div class=frame>
    <img src="http://jsfiddle.net/img/logo.png" height=17 />
</div>
<div class=frame>
    <img src="http://jsfiddle.net/img/logo.png" height=15 />
 </div>
<div class=frame>
    <img src="http://jsfiddle.net/img/logo.png" height=13 />
 </div>
<div class=frame>
    <img src="http://jsfiddle.net/img/logo.png" height=11 />
 </div>
<div class=frame>
    <img src="http://jsfiddle.net/img/logo.png" height=9 />
 </div>
<div class=frame>
    <img src="http://jsfiddle.net/img/logo.png" height=7 />
 </div>
<div class=frame>
    <img src="http://jsfiddle.net/img/logo.png" height=5 />
 </div>
<div class=frame>
    <img src="http://jsfiddle.net/img/logo.png" height=3 />
 </div>

Answer 1

This might be useful:

div {
    position:relative;
    width:200px;
    height:200px;
}
img {
    position:absolute;
    top:0;
    bottom:0;
    margin:auto;
}
.image {
    min-height:50px
}

Reference : http://www.student.oulu.fi/~laurirai/www/css/middle/

Answer 2

Try this solution with with pure css http://jsfiddle.net/sandeep/4RPFa/72/ May be the main problem with your html. Your not use quote when you define class & image height in your html.

CSS:

.frame {
    height: 25px;      /* equals max image height */
    width: 160px;
    border: 1px solid red;
    position:relative;
    margin: 1em 0;
    top: 50%;
    text-align: center;
    line-height: 24px;
    margin-bottom:20px;
}

img {
    background: #3A6F9A;
    vertical-align: middle;
    line-height:0;
    margin:0 auto;
    max-height:25px;
}

EDIT :

When i work around with the img tag it's leave 3px to 2px space from top. Now i decrease line-height & it's work. css:

    .frame {
        height: 25px;      /* equals max image height */
        width: 160px;
        border: 1px solid red;
        margin: 1em 0;
        text-align: center;
        line-height:22px;
        *:first-child+html line-height:24px; /* for IE7 */
    }

    img {
        background: #3A6F9A;
        vertical-align: middle;
        line-height:0;    
        max-height:25px;
        max-width:160px;
    }
@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) {
    .frame {
        line-height:20px; /* webkit browsers */
    }

the line-height property is render differently in different browsers. So; we have to define different line-height property browsers

Check this example http://jsfiddle.net/sandeep/4be8t/11/

Check this example about line-height different in different browsers input height differences in Firefox and Chrome

Answer 3

Using table and table-cell method do the job, specially because you targeting some old browsers as well, I create a snippet for you which you can run it and check the result:

.wrapper {
  position: relative;
  display: table;
  width: 300px;
  height: 200px;
}

.inside {
  vertical-align: middle;
  display: table-cell;
}

<div class="wrapper">
  <div class="inside">
    <p>Centre me please!!!</p>
  </div>
  <div class="inside">
    <img src="https://cdn2.iconfinder.com/data/icons/social-icons-circular-black/512/stackoverflow-128.png" />
  </div>
</div> 

Answer 4

Also, you can use Flexbox to achieve the correct result:

.parent {
  align-items: center; /* for vertical align */
  background: red;
  display: flex;
  height: 250px;
  /* justify-content: center; <- for horizontal align */
  width: 250px;
}

<div class="parent">
  <img class="child" src="https://cdn2.iconfinder.com/data/icons/social-icons-circular-black/512/stackoverflow-128.png" />
</div>

Answer 5

You could do this:

demo

http://jsfiddle.net/DZ8vW/1

CSS

.frame {
    height: 25px;      /* equals max image height */
    line-height: 25px;
    width: 160px;
    border: 1px solid red;

    text-align: center; margin: 1em 0;
    position: relative; /* Changes here... */
}
img {
    background: #3A6F9A;
    max-height: 25px;
    max-width: 160px;
    top: 50%;           /* here.. */
    left: 50%;           /* here... */
    position: absolute; /* and here */
}    

javascript

$("img").each(function(){
    this.style.marginTop = $(this).height() / -2 + "px";
})

Answer 6

I have been playing around with using padding for center alignment. You will need to define the top level outer-container size, but the inner container should resize, and you can set the padding at different percentage values.

jsfiddle

<div class='container'>
  <img src='image.jpg' />
</div>

.container {
  padding: 20%;
  background-color: blue;
}

img {
  width: 100%;
}