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