Center text within div

Question

I have a progress box that I would like to align the 'heading' in the center.

The box itself I think is fairly straight forward:

<div id="progressContainer" class="progressBox">
<div id="pbar" class="ui-progressbar ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-corner-all" role="progressbar" aria-valuemin="0" aria-valuemax="100" aria-valuenow="1">
<div class="progress-label">
    Step 1 of 4
</div>
<div class="ui-progressbar-value ui-widget-header ui-corner-left" style="width: 1%;">
</div>
</div>
    <ul id="progress">
       <li id="step0" class="current">Details <span></span></li>
       <li id="step1">Details<span></span></li>
       <li id="step2">Details<span></span></li>
       <li id="step3">Details<span></span></li>
    </ul>
</div>

The css for the heading:

.progress-label {
color: #000;
position: absolute;
top: 2px;
font-weight: bold;
}

adding text-align:center; or margin:0 auto; etc do not seem to work. Adding Left:33%; does make it roughly centered but not for all screen widths.

Could someone point out what I am doing wrong?

jsfiddle here

thanks.

Answer 1

Remove position: absolute; top: 2px; position: absolute; top: 2px; to make it center.

A working demo

Answer 2

Why is that div absolutely positioned? Just remove position: absolute; and then text-align: center; will work as expected.

Answer 3

Try remove position:absolute

.progress-label {
 color: #444;
 top: 2px;
 font-weight: bold;
 text-align:center;
}

Answer 4

just add this style in the main div

.progressBox {
     position: absolute;
     left: 50%;
     margin-left: -50px;    
 }

Working demo http://jsfiddle.net/e7CEK/9/