After searching both Stack Overflow and Google I still wonder how to vertical center a image that is bigger than it's parent element. I use no height, just max-height, because I want to make a responsive solution, without jQuery. If possible. Here is some code: <div style="max-height: 425px; overflow: hidden;"> <img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/jofNR_WkoCE/maxresdefault.jpg"> </div>