Is the property text-align: center; a good way to center an image using CSS?
img {
text-align: center;
}
That will not work as the text-align property applies to block containers, not inline elements, and img is an inline element. See the W3C specification.
Use this instead:
img.center {
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
}
<div style="border: 1px solid black;">
<img class="center" src ="https://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/stackoverflow/company/img/logos/so/so-icon.png?v=c78bd457575a">
</div>
That doesn't always work... if it doesn't, try:
img {
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
}
I came across this post, and it worked for me:
img {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
margin: auto;
}
<div style="border: 1px solid black; position:relative; min-height: 200px">
<img src="https://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/stackoverflow/company/img/logos/so/so-icon.png?v=c78bd457575a">
</div>
(Vertical and horizontal alignment)
Not recommendad:
Another way of doing it would be centering an enclosing paragraph:
<p style="text-align:center"><img src="https://via.placeholder.com/300"></p>
Update:
My answer above is correct if you want to start learning HTML/CSS, but it doesn't follow best practices
Actually, the only problem with your code is that the text-align attribute applies to text (yes, images count as text) inside of the tag. You would want to put a span tag around the image and set its style to text-align: center, as so:
span.centerImage {
text-align: center;
}
<span class="centerImage"><img src="http://placehold.it/60/60" /></span>
The image will be centered. In response to your question, it is the easiest and most foolproof way to center images, as long as you remember to apply the rule to the image's containing span (or div).
You can do:
<center><img src="..." /></center>
There are three methods for centering an element that I can suggest:
Using the text-align property
.parent {
text-align: center;
}
<div class="parent">
<img src="https://placehold.it/60/60" />
</div>
Using the margin property
img {
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
}
<img src="https://placehold.it/60/60" />
Using the position property
img {
display: block;
position: relative;
left: -50%;
}
.parent {
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
}
<div class="parent">
<img src="https://placehold.it/60/60" />
</div>
The first and second methods only work if the parent is at least as wide as the image. When the image is wider than its parent, the image will not stay centered!!!
But:
The third method is a good way for that!
Here's an example:
img {
display: block;
position: relative;
left: -50%;
}
.parent {
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
}
<div class="parent">
<img src="http://imgsv.imaging.nikon.com/lineup/lens/zoom/normalzoom/af-s_dx_18-140mmf_35-56g_ed_vr/img/sample/img_01.jpg" />
</div>
On the container holding image you can use a CSS 3 Flexbox to perfectly center the image inside, both vertically and horizontally.
Let's assume you have <div class="container"> as the image holder:
Then as CSS you have to use:
.container {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
height: 100%;
}
And this will make all your content inside this div perfectly centered.
Only if you need to support ancient versions of Internet Explorer.
The modern approach is to do margin: 0 auto in your CSS.
Example here: http://jsfiddle.net/bKRMY/
HTML:
<p>Hello the following image is centered</p>
<p class="pic"><img src="https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/440228301/StackoverflowLogo_reasonably_small.png"/></p>
<p>Did it work?</p>
CSS:
p.pic {
width: 48px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
The only issue here is that the width of the paragraph must be the same as the width of the image. If you don't put a width on the paragraph, it will not work, because it will assume 100% and your image will be aligned left, unless of course you use text-align:center.
Try out the fiddle and experiment with it if you like.
img{
display: block;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
}
If you are using a class with an image then the following will do
class {
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
}
If it is only an image in a specific class that you want to center align then following will do:
class img {
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
}
The simplest solution I found was to add this to my img-element:
style="display:block;margin:auto;"
It seems I don't need to add "0" before the "auto" as suggested by others. Maybe that is the proper way, but it works well enough for my purposes without the "0" as well. At least on latest Firefox, Chrome, and Edge.
Simply change parent align :)
Try this one on parent properties:
text-align:center
You can use text-align: center on the parent and change the img to display: inline-block → it therefore behaves like a text-element and is will be centered if the parent has a width!
img {
display: inline-block
}
To center a non background image depends on whether you want to display the image as an inline (default behavior) or a block element.
Case of inline
If you want to keep the default behavior of the image's display CSS property, you will need to wrap your image inside another block element to which you must set text-align: center;
Case of block
If you want to consider the image as a block element of its own, then text-align property does not make a sens, and you should do this instead:
IMG.display {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
The answer to your question:
Is the property text-align: center; a good way to center an image
using CSS?
Yes and no.
Yes, if the image is the only element inside its wrapper.
No, in case you have other elements inside the image's wrapper because all the children elements which are siblings of the image will inherit the text-align property: and may be you would not like this side effect.
References
List of inline elements
Centering things
.img-container {
display: flex;
}
img {
margin: auto;
}
this will make the image center in both vertically and horizontally
I would use a div to center align an image. As in:
<div align="center"><img src="your_image_source"/></div>
If you want to set the image as the background, I've got a solution:
.image {
background-image: url(yourimage.jpg);
background-position: center;
}
One more way to scale - display it:
img {
width: 60%; /* Or required size of image. */
margin-left: 20% /* Or scale it to move image. */
margin-right: 20% /* It doesn't matters much if using left and width */
}
Use this to your img CSS:
img {
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
}
Use Grids To Stack images. It is very easy here is the code
.grid {
display:grid;
}
.grid img {
display:block;
margin:0 auto;
}
If your img element is inside a div, which is itself inside another div whose display has been set as flexbox, as in my case here:
(HTML)
<nav class="header">
<div class="image">
<img
src=troll
alt="trollface"
></img>
</div>
<div class="title">
Meme Generator
</div>
<div class="subtitle">
React Course - Project 3
</div>
</nav>
(CSS)
.header{
display: flex;
}
.image{
width: 5%;
height: 100%;
}
.image > img{
width: 100%;
}
You could set your .image div to align itself vertically by doing this:
.image{
width: 5%;
height: 100%;
align-self: center;
}
display: block with margin: 0 didn't work for me, neither wrapping with a text-align: center element.
This is my solution:
img.center {
position: absolute;
transform: translateX(-50%);
left: 50%;
}
translateX is supported by most browsers
I discovered that if I have an image and some text inside a div, then I can use text-align:center to align the text and the image in one swoop.
HTML:
<div class="picture-group">
<h2 class="picture-title">Picture #1</h2>
<img src="http://lorempixel.com/99/100/" alt="" class="picture-img" />
<p class="picture-caption">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Temporibus sapiente fuga, quia?</p>
</div>
CSS:
.picture-group {
border: 1px solid black;
width: 25%;
float: left;
height: 300px;
#overflow:scroll;
padding: 5px;
text-align:center;
}
CodePen:
https://codepen.io/artforlife/pen/MoBzrL?editors=1100
Sometimes we directly add the content and images on the WordPress administrator inside the pages. When we insert the images inside the content and want to align that center. Code is displayed as:
**<p><img src="https://abcxyz.com/demo/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1.jpg" alt=""></p>**
In that case you can add CSS content like this:
article p img{
margin: 0 auto;
display: block;
text-align: center;
float: none;
}
Use:
<dev class="col-sm-8" style="text-align: center;"><img src="{{URL('image/car-trouble-with-clipping-path.jpg')}}" ></dev>
I think this is the way to center an image in the Laravel framework.
To center an image with CSS.
img{
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
You can learn more here
If you want to center image to the center both vertically and horizontaly, regardless of screen size, you can try out this code
img{
display: flex;
justify-content:center;
align-items: center;
height: 100vh;
}
Is it possible to have the content of a div vertically centred?
<div style="padding-left: 15px; vertical-align: middle; align-content: center" >
<h3>Selections</h3>
</div>
I want the text left aligned and in the vertical middle
I gave you an example of vertical alignment using flex rules. In this case, the vertical alignment occurs with the help of an align-item: center. Also, you need space for vertical alignment.
body {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
div {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
height: 100vh;
}
<div>
<h3>Selections</h3>
</div>
Well it's an easy property you can set. You can set the text-align property. You can read more about this below.
https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_text_text-align.ASP
for vertical centering:
https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_align.asp
You want to use the CSS property text-align. Also remove the inline 'style' you have on your div and use a css file
.center-content {
text-align: center;
width: 100%;
}
<div class="center-content">
hello world
</div>
If you are oke with setting the height of the h3 tag, you can do this:
h3{
height: 4%;
margin-top: 48%;
margin-bottom: 48%;
}
Otherwise do this;
h3{
margin-top: 50%;
margin-bottom: 50%;
}
I want to center a DIV within a parent DIV. I have tried using the recommende dsolution on SO -- How to horizontally center a <div> in another <div>?, but its not centering it. The basic layout is this
#revealScoreMobile {
padding: 10px;
display: block;
text-align: center;
width: 100%;
}
.stats {
text-align: center;
width: 100%;
background-color: red;
margin: 0 auto;
}
<div id="revealScoreMobile">
...
<div class="stats" style="">
<div class="score">5.0</div>
(<span class="votesCast">1</span> votes cast)
</div>
</div>
and yet as you can see from the Fiddle -- https://jsfiddle.net/5Lgu0uw3/2/, the child DIV is not centering within the parent, despite the fact I have
text-align:center;
in there. What gives? What else do I need to do to center that DIV within its parent?
I am not completely sure what you want, but if you want the inner DIV NOT have the full width, but only as much as its text contents require, make it an inline-block and erase the widthsetting (or give it a widthsetting less than 100%). inline-blocks are affected by text-align: center
(note that I erased some superfluous settings, but put the ... content into its own DIV, since it otherwise would be on one line with the subsequent inline-block.
#revealScoreMobile {
padding: 10px;
text-align: center;
}
.stats {
display: inline-block;
text-align: center;
background-color: red;
}
<div id="revealScoreMobile">
<div> ... </div>
<div class="stats" style="">
<div class="score">5.0</div>
(<span class="votesCast">1</span> votes cast)
</div>
</div>
As others have suggested in the comments, text-align: center; only applies to text content, not the inner div.
Your CSS applies width: 100%; to .stats which is forcing it to take up the full width of it's parent container #revealScoreMobile, which is also width: 100%;. Secondly it needs display: inline-block; to override the previous display: table-cell; as present in your jsfiddle example.
Replace in your CSS:
.stats {
display: inline-block;
text-align: center;
background-color: red;
margin: 0 auto;
}
I need to make a website and there is a button which is in the middle horizontally. I can use left 50% or margin-left but when I minimize the window - it isn't in the middle. How do I set the div to be exactly in the middle also when you minimize the window of the browser?
Edit: fixed it by doing as Trix said and adding
.center-div{
margin: 0 auto;
}
If your div has a width value, you may use:
CSS
.center-div{
width: 100px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
But, if not, you may add text-align: center to its parent and display: inline-block; to the centering div itself:
HTML
<div class="parent">
<div class="center-div">
</div>
</div>
CSS
.parent{
text-align: center;
}
.parent .center-div{
display: inline-block;
}
vertical-align has always given me problems in the past and once again I'm met with a problem that I don't know how to solve.
I have this html:
<ul id="council-slider">
<li class="col-md-12" style="display: block">
<img src="somesource" />
<div class="council-spacer"></div>
<p>text content goes here</p>
</li>
</ul>
CSS:
#council-slider {
margin: 0 auto;
list-style: none;
min-height: 300px;
max-height: 400px;
}
#council-slider li img {
float: left;
height: auto;
width: 25%;
margin: 5px;
}
.council-spacer {
height: 300px;
width: 100px;
float: left;
}
#council-slider li p {
margin-top: 100px;
}
I want to be able to vertically align the image in the middle. The text is multiple lines that wrapped so using line-height will not work in this situation. Also the images can have varying heights.
There are multiple list items; I just used one in the example to simplify and reduce the html.
You should read up on where the vertical-align property has the ability to be applied.
Quoting from MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/vertical-align
The vertical-align CSS property specifies the vertical alignment of an inline or table-cell box.
Since your element is not being displayed as either inline or table-cell vertical-align: middle; will not do you any good here.
You can, however, set your <div> styling to display: table-cell; and then vertical-align: middle
Alternatively, this can be achieved with CSS3 as hars pointed out, just make sure your user's browsers support CSS3
.valign-middle {
position: relative;
top: 50%;
Transform: translateY (-50%);
}
The way this works -
Set position relative to the parent/container (i.e. <li> in your case)
Move the image that you want to vertically align, down 50% of the container height
Move the image up 50% of the height of the image
Add a class to your img as below.
.verticallyCenter {
position: relative;
top:50%;
Transform:translateY (-50%);}
Refer This
Without seeing your actual css code it is hard to say, but you should use vertical-align: middle for all objects that you want to align and you may need to change the display of your paragraph to display: table-cell.
Will be easier using flexbox: display: flex; and align-items: center;
Demo
#council-slider {
list-style: none;
}
#council-slider li{
display: flex;
margin: 10px 0;
align-items: center;
}
.council-spacer {
width: 20px;
}