From the course: JavaScript: Enhancing the DOM (2013)

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Centering an image

Centering an image

From the course: JavaScript: Enhancing the DOM (2013)

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Centering an image

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So our images are loading, everything is resizing properly. Now it's time to center the images. to do that, I'm going to create a separate function, and it's going to go right down here, right before the closing of the self-executing function. So I'll call this function center image, and this function is going to expect an image to be passed to it. So, what I want to do here is start by creating a couple variables. I'll call this myDifX and that's going to be equal to the window interwidth. Minus the image that gets past, width, and divided by two. Once we have re-sized, the images they are going to be usually smaller or the same size as the window. So, we need to calculate the difference between the width of the image and the window. Divide that by two so that if it needs to be moved. It's going to be moved by half the distance. That's what places it in the center. So, we'll calculate the difference between the x position and the y position of the images. So, instead of when or with…

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