css absolute position won't work with margin-left:auto margin-right: auto

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Published on 2012-04-03T17:22:25Z Indexed on 2012/04/03 17:29 UTC
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Say you have the following css applied to a div tag

.divtagABS {
    position: absolute;
    margin-left: auto;  
    margin-right:auto;
 }

the margin-left and margin-right does not take effect

but if you have relative, it works fine i.e.

,divtagREL {
position: relative;
margin-left: auto;  
 margin-right:auto;
}

why is that? i just want to center an element

can someone explain why setting margins to auto in absolute position does not work?

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