Perfectly Center Inside Entire Page with jQuery

#jquery

#css

#html

#javascript

Set the outer container's height and width to the window's height and width.

Set the inner container's absolute positioning according to the outer container's height and width.

$(window).resize(function(){
  $('.container').css({
    height: $(window).height(),
    width: $(window).width()
  });
  $('.centered-container').css({
    position: 'absolute',
    left: ($(window).width() - $('.centered-container').outerWidth())/2,
    top: ($(window).height() - $('.centered-container').outerHeight())/2
  });
});

$(window).resize();

Put the script inside window resize so that whenever the user resizes the window, the container stays centered.

Call window resize on load for initial centering.

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gabrielstuff

You might want to debounce it using lodash, undescore or jQuery debounce plugin from Paul Irish : http://www.paulirish.com/2009/throttled-smartresize-jquery-event-handler/

Nice anyway !

over 1 year ago ·

lloiser

instead of calling jQuery you should cache these elements outside your resize event handler. traversing a large dom might be inefficient so doing it only once might improve the performance!

var $window = $(window);
var $container = $('.container');
var $centerContainer = $('.centered-container');
// you should also cache the size of the centered container if its size never changes
// var centerContainerWidth = $centerContainer.outerWidth();
// var centerContainerHeight = $centerContainer.outerHeight();

$window.resize(function(){
  var windowWidth = $window.width();
  var windowHeight = $window.height();

  $container .css({
    height: windowHeight,
    width: windowWidth 
  });

  $centerContainer.css({
    position: 'absolute',
    left: (windowWidth - $centerContainer.outerWidth()) / 2,
    top: (windowHeight - $centerContainer.outerHeight()) / 2
  });
});

$window.resize();

over 1 year ago ·