How to position an element on another?

Question

I would like to position some elements of the same class one on other. Practically, I want to have them in the same position:

<div id="container">
    <div class="sheet"></div>
    <div class="sheet"></div>
    <div class="sheet"></div>
</div>

I also want to have these divs horizontally aligned in the center.

.container {
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
}

How would you do this?

edit: Here is what I would like to have, but in positioned to center:

Answer 1

Here's a FIDDLE

#container {
  position: relative;
  width: 450px;
  height: 600px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}
.sheet {
  background: #fff;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  box-shadow: 0 0 3px 0 #666;
  -moz-box-shadow: 0 0 3px 0 #666;
  -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 3px 0 #666;
}
.sheet:nth-child(1) {
  transform: rotate(5deg);
  -moz-transform: rotate(5deg);
  -webkit-transform: rotate(5deg);
}
.sheet:nth-child(2) {
  transform: rotate(-10deg);
  -moz-transform: rotate(-10deg);
  -webkit-transform: rotate(-10deg);
}

Answer 2

EDIT: Not as you need

As SUMAN said, you can use nth-child(xn).

I do not have the time to make the script, but all the informations you need can be found here: http://dannich.com/lab/css3-pseudo-classes-for-grid-with-dynamic-content/

NOTE: This is certainly not the most compatible option

Good luck!

Answer 3

My code will also work on legacy browsers (such as IE8 etc) (that is why I decided to use ids). If you aren't planning on supporting legacy browsers, let me know and I'll update my code or take a look at @mdesdev's answer which is compatible with all modern browsers.

DEMO

HTML

<div id="container">
    <div class="sheet" id='sheet1'></div>
    <div class="sheet" id='sheet2'></div>
    <div class="sheet" id='sheet3'></div>
</div>

CSS

#container {

    width:150px;
    position:relative;
    left:0;
    right:0;
    margin:0 auto;
    z-index:10;

}

.sheet{
    position:absolute; 
    width:150px;
    height:150px;
    border:1px solid brown;
    background:red;

}

#sheet1{
    z-index:7;
    top:5px;
    left:5px;
    background:blue;
    }

#sheet2{
    z-index:8;
    top:10px;
    left:10px;
    background:green;
    }

#sheet3{
    z-index:9;
    top:15px;
    left:15px;
    }

Answer 4

go with the nth-child(n) to differentiate between those same class divs

Answer 5

I think I got what you want!

HTML

<div id="container">
    <div class="sheet" id='sheet1'></div>
    <div class="sheet" id='sheet2'></div>
</div>

CSS

.container {
    width:300px;
    margin:0 auto;
    position:relative;
    z-index:10;
}

.sheet{
    top:auto;
    left:auto;
    vertical-align:middle;
    position:absolute; 
    width:150px;
    height:150px;
    border:1px solid brown;
    background:red;

}

#sheet1{
    z-index:7;
    transform:rotate(7deg);
    -ms-transform:rotate(7deg); /* IE 9 */
    -webkit-transform:rotate(7deg); /* Opera, Chrome, and Safari */
}

#sheet2{
    z-index:8;
    transform:rotate(-7deg);
    -ms-transform:rotate(-7deg); /* IE 9 */
    -webkit-transform:rotate(-7deg); /* Opera, Chrome, and Safari */
}

NOTE: edited from W.D code Thanks to him to start the code! It makes challenge!

Answer 6

Use Position Absolute:

DEMO use css property position: absolute; to keep elements above each other.

Use z-index to arrange which element is above which:

DEMO use z-index: 3; to defined which element should be shown above which the greater the number the above it will be from those with lesser value in z-index.

To Rotate user transform rotate

DEMO use transform: rotate(-7deg); to rotate your divs.

Answer 7

I recently did something just like this. In my case the "sheets" were going to slide apart on click, so I just had them expanded by default for IE8. For other browsers I did something like this:

.container {
    display: flex;
}
.sheet {
   position: relative;
}
.sheet:nth-child(1) {
    left: 33%;
}
.sheet:nth-child(3) {
    left: -33%;
}