Centering with Position absolute

HTML:

<div class="wrapper">
  <img src="http://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/stackoverflow/company/img/logos/so/so-icon.png?v=c78bd457575a">
</div>

CSS:

.wrapper{
   position:relative;
   height: 600px;
}
.wrapper img {
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  margin: auto;
}

If you want to center other then images, then you must give height and width to that element.

HTML:

<div class="wrapper">
  <div class="child">
     make me center
  </div>
</div>

CSS:

.wrapper{
   position:relative;
   height: 600px;
}
.wrapper .child {
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  margin: auto;
  width: 200px;
  height: 30px;
  border: 1px solid #f00;
}

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