CSS text not centered properly because of the object location - html

Question

I want to have my text in the middle. Since I added the element in the same line, the text offsets towards the right.
My code looks like this:
.property {
background-color: #497ba7;
color: #ffff;
text-align: center;
margin-left: 50px;
margin-right: 50px;
padding: 5px;
}
.navbtntop {
cursor: pointer;
float: left;
font-size: 20px;
background-color: #497ba7;
color: #fff;
border-color: rgba(0, 0, 255, 0.082);
border-radius: 3px;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 7px;
width: 20%;
text-align: center;
margin-left: 5.5%;
}
Previous
<h2 class="property">MDU Layout</h2>
Where is the problem then?

Answer 1

cols layout
Your idea (Keep the right col "center" to all wrapper area).
One way is by using one "empty" div (20% - 60% - 20%).
The other way is to add margin-right: 20%; for the right col.
.display_grid{
display: grid;
border: 2px solid orange;
grid-template-columns: 20% auto 20%;
}
.left {
border: 1px solid black;
display: block;
background-color: red;
padding: 20px;
color: #fff;
text-align: center;
}
.right {
background-color: blue;
color: #ffff;
text-align: center;
border: 1px solid red;
margin: 0px;
}
<div class="display_grid">
Left
<h2 class="right">Right</h2>
<div>
</div>
position absolute
One more way to achieve this is by position absolute (Old approach - but in your case, if the "left col" width/content change Maybe there is no choice).
Cons: less responsive + the text could overlap.
.relative_wrapper{
display: grid;
position: relative;
border: 2px solid orange;
grid-template-columns: 20% auto;
}
.left {
border: 1px solid black;
display: block;
background-color: red;
padding: 20px;
color: #fff;
text-align: center;
}
.right {
background-color: blue;
color: #ffff;
text-align: center;
border: 1px solid red;
margin: 0px;
/* position absolute */
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}
<div class="relative_wrapper">
Left
<h2 class="right">Right</h2>
<div>
</div>
https://medium.com/front-end-weekly/absolute-centering-in-css-ea3a9d0ad72e