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Every time I work on a new project I do not have any problems to center the text using "text-align: center" to center the text, but I have never seen a similar code to center images so I always have hack the code by either centering the images in the HTML (not the cleanest option) or by giving the image a variable width (which does not work on multiple resolutions). Is there any way to accomplish this that I have not tried? And, does any one know if something like this will be implemented in CSS3?

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I dont think so but what I do Is in my HTML file I will add: <center><img src="example.png"/></center> – MichealH Aug 9 '10 at 20:33
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I think this belongs on DocType. – Darryl Hein Aug 9 '10 at 20:46

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Set the containing elements style to

text-align:center;

set your image style to 

display:inline-block;
margin:auto;
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Sruly's answer hits the nail on the head. the only thing I would consider adding is vertical-align: middle; for the image tag, as follows:

display:inline-block;
margin:auto;
vertical-align: middle;
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