Best (and worst ) ways to center WITHOUT flex or grid

People like to make fun of how hard it is to center things with CSS, and while we have flex and grid which make it super duper easy these days. Sometimes when someone complains about it, then gets a reply of it s easy with flexbox, they reply but what if you can t use flexbox or grid . It s a dumb reply, but it did get me thinking a little. Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 01:06 The criteria 02:09 Technique, 1 lineheight 04:52 Technique, 2 tables 06:58 Technique, 3 position absolute v1 10:15 Technique, 4 position absolute v2 12:30 Technique, 5 padding (with custom properties) , css Come hang out with other dev s in my Discord Community Keep up to date with everything I m up to . .., KevinPowell, centervertically, centeringwithcss, css, csscenter, flexbox, frontend, frontend, grid 20210812 87YMCtsBoCM