Center Triangle at Bottom of Div

Miura-shi picture Miura-shi · Nov 1, 2013 · Viewed 106.8k times · Source

I am trying to have a triangle/arrow at the bottom of my hero but it is not responsive and doesn't work on mobile very well as the triangle floats off to the right and is not absolutely centered anymore.

How could I keep the triangle positioned in the absolute center at the bottom of the div at all times?

Example code here:

http://jsfiddle.net/SxKr5/1/

HTML:

<div class="hero"></div>

CSS:

.hero {     
    position:relative;
    background-color:#e15915;
    height:320px !important;
    width:100% !important;


}


.hero:after,
.hero:after {
    z-index: -1;
    position: absolute;
    top: 98.1%;
    left: 70%;
    margin-left: -25%;
    content: '';
    width: 0;
    height: 0;
    border-top: solid 50px #e15915;
    border-left: solid 50px transparent;
    border-right: solid 50px transparent;
}

Answer

Ben Jackson picture Ben Jackson · Nov 1, 2013

Can't you just set left to 50% and then have margin-left set to -25px to account for it's width: http://jsfiddle.net/9AbYc/

.hero:after {
    content:'';
    position: absolute;
    top: 100%;
    left: 50%;
    margin-left: -50px;
    width: 0;
    height: 0;
    border-top: solid 50px #e15915;
    border-left: solid 50px transparent;
    border-right: solid 50px transparent;
}

or if you needed a variable width you could use: http://jsfiddle.net/9AbYc/1/

.hero:after {
    content:'';
    position: absolute;
    top: 100%;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    margin: 0 auto;
    width: 0;
    height: 0;
    border-top: solid 50px #e15915;
    border-left: solid 50px transparent;
    border-right: solid 50px transparent;
}