How do I vertically center text and icons in Bulma? - html

Question

I'm trying to center an icon and text using Bulma and flexbox in a vue.js project, I tried to follow the answer from this question (How to vertically center elements in Bulma?). My icon vertically centers but the text elements seem to be off-center with a few pixels of white space under them. They are both on the same baseline but means they aren't in line with my icon (see image below).
I'm not sure where I am going wrong, I've included my code below, I'd appreciate any help possible please
<template>
<div class="singleProjectContainer" :key="project.id">
<ul class="columns is-flex projectPreview" style="border-bottom: 0.5px solid #c1c1c1;">
<div class="column is-1 is-flex projectIcon">
<li>
<div v-if="project.projectType === 'Identity'"class="projectIcon" >
<img src="../static/SVG/Identity-Circle.svg" alt="circle icon for branding & identity" />
</div>
</li>
</div>
<div class="projectTitle column is-4">
<li> <h3>{{ project.Name }}</h3> </li>
</div>
<div class="projectSummary column is-7">
<li> <p>{{ project.Summary }}</p> </li>
</div>
</ul>
</div>
</template>
<script>
export default {
name: 'ProjectItem',
props: ['project'],
}
</script>
<style scoped>
.columns {
height: 100%;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
.singleProjectContainer {
height: 72x;
margin: 0px;
}
.columns.projectPreview {
-webkit-box-align: center;
-ms-flex-align: center;
align-items: center;
}
.projectIcon {
padding: 0 0 0 10px;
height: 100%;
}
.projectTitle {
height: 100%;
}
.projectIcon img {
height: 20px;
width: 20px;
}
.projectTitle h3 {
font-size: 1.2em;
font-family: 'Sporting Grotesque_Regular';
color: black;
}
</style>

Answer 1

.is-vcentered selector related only to columns:
https://bulma.io/documentation/columns/options/#vertical-alignment
.columns.is-vcentered {
align-items: center;
}
Bulma >= 0.9.1
Since Bulma, 0.9.1 we can use flexbox helpers:
Combined with is-flex, all of the Flexbox CSS properties are available as Bulma helpers:
flex-direction
flex-wrap
justify-content
align-content
align-items
align-self
flex-grow
flex-shrink
Example:
<div class="is-align-items-center is-flex"></div>
Snippet:
<div class="container">
<ul class="list">
<li class="box list-item is-flex is-align-items-center ">
<span class="icon has-text-danger">
<i class="fas has-text-success fa-2x fa-adjust"></i>
</span>
<h2 style="margin-left: 10px; font-size: 60px; line-height: 1;">Hello world</h2>
<h3 style="margin-left: auto;">Right text</h3>
</li>
<li class="box list-item is-flex is-align-content-center">
<span class="icon has-text-danger">
<i class="fas has-text-danger fa-2x fa-exclamation-triangle"></i>
</span>
<h2 style="margin-left: 20px; font-size: 20px;">Item 2</h2>
<h3 style="margin-left: auto;">Right text</h3>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bulma#0.9.1/css/bulma.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.13.0/css/all.min.css">
Bulma < 0.9.1 (Old answer)
For lists - No "built-in" way (by helpers) to align icons and text (yet).
One solution - use core is-flex and one CSS custom style (For align-items: center;) .
Snippet:
/* one custom class (not from bulma core) */
li.vcenter{
align-items: center;
}
<div class="container">
<ul class="list">
<li class="list-item is-flex vcenter">
<span class="icon has-text-danger">
<i class="fas has-text-success fa-2x fa-adjust"></i>
</span>
<h2 style="margin-left: 10px; font-size: 60px; line-height: 1;">Hello world</h2>
<h3 style="margin-left: auto;">Right text</h3>
</li>
<li class="list-item is-flex vcenter">
<span class="icon has-text-danger">
<i class="fas has-text-danger fa-2x fa-exclamation-triangle"></i>
</span>
<h2 style="margin-left: 20px; font-size: 20px;">Item 2</h2>
<h3 style="margin-left: auto;">Right text</h3>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bulma#0.8.2/css/bulma.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.13.0/css/all.min.css">
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