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I have a div set to display:block (90px height and width), and I have some text inside.
I need the text to be aligned in the center both vertically and horizontally.
I have tried text-align:center, but it doesn't do the vertical centering part, so I tried vertical-align:middle, but it didn't work.
Any ideas?
If it is one line of text and/or image, then it is easy to do. Just use:
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
line-height: 90px; /* The same as your div height */
That's it. If it can be multiple lines, then it is somewhat more complicated. But there are solutions on http://pmob.co.uk/. Look for "vertical align".
Since they tend to be hacks or adding complicated divs... I usually use a table with a single cell to do it... to make it as simple as possible.
Update for 2020:
Unless you need make it work on earlier browsers such as Internet Explorer 10, you can use flexbox. It is widely supported by all current major browsers. Basically, the container needs to be specified as a flex container, together with centering along its main and cross axis:
#container {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
}
To specify a fixed width for the child, which is called a "flex item":
#content {
flex: 0 0 120px;
}
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/2woqsef1/1/
To shrink-wrap the content, it is even simpler: just remove the flex: ... line from the flex item, and it is automatically shrink-wrapped.
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/2woqsef1/2/
The examples above have been tested on major browsers including MS Edge and Internet Explorer 11.
One technical note if you need to customize it: inside of the flex item, since this flex item is not a flex container itself, the old non-flexbox way of CSS works as expected. However, if you add an additional flex item to the current flex container, the two flex items will be horizontally placed. To make them vertically placed, add the flex-direction: column; to the flex container. This is how it works between a flex container and its immediate child elements.
There is an alternative method of doing the centering: by not specifying center for the distribution on the main and cross axis for the flex container, but instead specify margin: auto on the flex item to take up all extra space in all four directions, and the evenly distributed margins will make the flex item centered in all directions. This works except when there are multiple flex items. Also, this technique works on MS Edge but not on Internet Explorer 11.
Update for 2016 / 2017:
It can be more commonly done with transform, and it works well even in older browsers such as Internet Explorer 10 and Internet Explorer 11. It can support multiple lines of text:
position: relative;
top: 50%;
transform: translateY(-50%);
Example: https://jsfiddle.net/wb8u02kL/1/
To shrink-wrap the width:
The solution above used a fixed width for the content area. To use a shrink-wrapped width, use
position: relative;
float: left;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
Example: https://jsfiddle.net/wb8u02kL/2/
If the support for Internet Explorer 10 is needed, then flexbox won't work and the method above and the line-height method would work. Otherwise, flexbox would do the job.
Common techniques as of 2014:
Approach 1 - transform translateX/translateY:
Example Here / Full Screen Example
In supported browsers (most of them), you can use top: 50%/left: 50% in combination with translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%) to dynamically vertically/horizontally center the element.
.container {
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
}
Approach 2 - Flexbox method:
Example Here / Full Screen Example
In supported browsers, set the display of the targeted element to flex and use align-items: center for vertical centering and justify-content: center for horizontal centering. Just don't forget to add vendor prefixes for additional browser support (see example).
html, body, .container {
height: 100%;
}
.container {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
}
Approach 3 - table-cell/vertical-align: middle:
Example Here / Full Screen Example
In some cases, you will need to ensure that the html/body element's height is set to 100%.
For vertical alignment, set the parent element's width/height to 100% and add display: table. Then for the child element, change the display to table-cell and add vertical-align: middle.
For horizontal centering, you could either add text-align: center to center the text and any other inline children elements. Alternatively, you could use margin: 0 auto assuming the element is block level.
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
.parent {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
display: table;
text-align: center;
}
.parent > .child {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
Approach 4 - Absolutely positioned 50% from the top with displacement:
Example Here / Full Screen Example
This approach assumes that the text has a known height - in this instance, 18px. Just absolutely position the element 50% from the top, relative to the parent element. Use a negative margin-top value that is half of the element's known height, in this case - -9px.
html, body, .container {
height: 100%;
}
.container {
position: relative;
text-align: center;
}
.container > p {
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 0;
right: 0;
margin-top: -9px;
}
Approach 5 - The line-height method (Least flexible - not suggested):
Example Here
In some cases, the parent element will have a fixed height. For vertical centering, all you have to do is set a line-height value on the child element equal to the fixed height of the parent element.
Though this solution will work in some cases, it's worth noting that it won't work when there are multiple lines of text - like this.
.parent {
height: 200px;
width: 400px;
text-align: center;
}
.parent > .child {
line-height: 200px;
}
Methods 4 and 5 aren't the most reliable. Go with one of the first 3.
Using flexbox/CSS:
<div class="box">
<p>അ</p>
</div>
The CSS:
.box{
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
}
Taken from Quick Tip: The Simplest Way To Center Elements Vertically And Horizontally
Add the line display: table-cell; to your CSS content for that div.
Only table cells support the vertical-align: middle;, but you can give that [table-cell] definition to the div...
A live example is here: http://jsfiddle.net/tH2cc/
div{
height: 90px;
width: 90px;
text-align: center;
border: 1px solid silver;
display: table-cell; /* This says treat this element like a table cell */
vertical-align:middle; /* Now we can center vertically like in a TD */
}
Give this CSS class to the targeted <div>:
.centered {
width: 150px;
height: 150px;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
text-align: center;
background: red; /* Not necessary just to see the result clearly */
}
<div class="centered">This text is centered horizontally and vertically</div>
You can try very easy code for this:
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
.box{
height: 90px;
width: 90px;
background: green;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
}
<div class="box">
Lorem
</div>
Codepen link: http://codepen.io/santoshkhalse/pen/xRmZwr
I always use the following CSS for a container, to center its content horizontally and vertically.
display: -webkit-box;
display: -moz-box;
display: -ms-flexbox;
display: -webkit-flex;
display: flex;
-webkit-box-align: center;
-moz-box-align: center;
-ms-flex-align: center;
-webkit-align-items: center;
align-items: center;
-webkit-box-pack: center;
-moz-box-pack: center;
-ms-flex-pack: center;
-webkit-justify-content: center;
justify-content: center;
See it in action here: https://jsfiddle.net/yp1gusn7/
2020 Way
.parent{
display: grid;
place-items: center;
}
You can use the flex property at the parent div and add the margin:auto property to the children items:
.parent {
display: flex;
/* You can change this to `row` if you want the items side by side instead of stacked */
flex-direction: column;
}
/* Change the `p` tag to what your items child items are */
.parent p {
margin: auto;
}
You can see more options of flex here: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
Approach 1
div {
height: 90px;
line-height: 90px;
text-align: center;
border: 2px dashed #f69c55;
}
<div>
Hello, World!!
</div>
Approach 2
div {
height: 200px;
line-height: 200px;
text-align: center;
border: 2px dashed #f69c55;
}
span {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
line-height: normal;
}
<div>
<span>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Haec et tu ita posuisti, et verba vestra sunt. Non enim iam stirpis bonum quaeret, sed animalis. </span>
</div>
Approach 3
div {
display: table;
height: 100px;
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
border: 2px dashed #f69c55;
}
span {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
<div>
<span>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.</span>
</div>
Add the following code in the parent div
display: grid;
place-items: center;
Use:
# Parent
{
display: table;
}
# Child
{
display: table-cell;
width: 100%; /* As large as its parent to center the text horizontally */
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle; /* Vertically align this element on its parent */
}
<div class="small-container">
<span>Text centered</span>
</div>
<style>
.small-container {
width:250px;
height:250px;
border:1px green solid;
text-align:center;
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
-moz-transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
-webkit-transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
}
.small-container span{
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
-moz-transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
-webkit-transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
}
</style>
div {
height: 90px;
line-height: 90px;
text-align: center;
border: 2px dashed #f69c55;
}
<div>
Hello, World!!
</div>
GRID
.center {
display: grid;
justify-items: center;
align-items: center;
}
.center {
display: grid;
justify-items: center;
align-items: center;
}
.box {
width: 200px;
height: 100px;
background: red;
}
<div class="box center">My text</div>
Adjusting line height to get the vertical alignment.
line-height: 90px;
This is really simple code that works for me! It is just one line and your text will be centered horizontally.
.center-horizontally{
justify-content: center;
}
<Card.Footer className="card-body-padding center-horizontally">
<label className="support-expand-text-light">Call or email Customer Support to change</label>
</Card.Footer>
The output looks like this:
.cell-row {display: table; width: 100%; height: 100px; background-color: lightgrey; text-align: center}
.cell {display: table-cell}
.cell-middle {vertical-align: middle}
<div class="cell-row">
<div class="cell cell-middle">Center</div>
</div>
This works for me (tested OK!):
HTML:
<div class="mydiv">
<p>Item to be centered!</p>
</div>
CSS:
.mydiv {
height: 100%; /* Or other */
position: relative;
}
.mydiv p {
margin: 0;
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
margin-right: -50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%); /* To compensate own width and height */
}
You can choose other values than 50%. For example, 25% to center at 25% of parent.
You can try the following methods:
If you have a single word or one line sentence, then the following code can do the trick.
Have a text inside a div tag and give it an id. Define the following properties for that id.
id-name {
height: 90px;
line-height: 90px;
text-align: center;
border: 2px dashed red;
}
Note: Make sure the line-height property is same as the height of the division.
Image
But, if the content is more than one single word or a line then this doesn’t work. Also, there will be times when you cannot specify the size of a division in px or % (when the division is really small and you want the content to be exactly in the middle).
To solve this issue, we can try the following combination of properties.
id-name {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
border: 2px dashed red;
}
Image
These 3 lines of code sets the content exactly in the middle of a division (irrespective of the size of the display). The "align-items: center" helps in vertical centering while "justify-content: center" will make it horizontally centered.
Note: Flex does not work in all browsers. Make sure you add appropriate vendor prefixes for additional browser support.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
.maindiv {
height: 450px;
background: #f8f8f8;
display: -webkit-flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
}
p {
font-size: 24px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="maindiv">
<h1>Title</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
For me this was the best solution:
HTML:
<div id="outer">
<img src="logo.png">
</div>
CSS:
#outer {
position: fixed;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
/* Bring your own prefixes */
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}
This worked for me:
.center-stuff{
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
line-height: 230px; /* This should be the div height */
}
Apply style:
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 0;
right: 0;
Your text would be centered irrespective of its length.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div style ="text-align: center;">Center horizontal text</div>
<div style ="position: absolute; top: 50%; left: 50%; transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);">Center vertical text</div>
</body>
</html>
This should be the right answer. Cleanest and simplest:
.element {
position: relative;
top: 50%;
transform: translateY(-50%);
}
Try the following example. I have added examples for each category: horizontal and vertical
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
#horizontal
{
text-align: center;
}
#vertical
{
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id ="horizontal">Center horizontal text</div>
<div id ="vertical">Center vertical text</div>
</body>
</html>
I have a div set to display:block (90px height and width), and I have some text inside.
I need the text to be aligned in the center both vertically and horizontally.
I have tried text-align:center, but it doesn't do the vertical centering part, so I tried vertical-align:middle, but it didn't work.
Any ideas?
If it is one line of text and/or image, then it is easy to do. Just use:
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
line-height: 90px; /* The same as your div height */
That's it. If it can be multiple lines, then it is somewhat more complicated. But there are solutions on http://pmob.co.uk/. Look for "vertical align".
Since they tend to be hacks or adding complicated divs... I usually use a table with a single cell to do it... to make it as simple as possible.
Update for 2020:
Unless you need make it work on earlier browsers such as Internet Explorer 10, you can use flexbox. It is widely supported by all current major browsers. Basically, the container needs to be specified as a flex container, together with centering along its main and cross axis:
#container {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
}
To specify a fixed width for the child, which is called a "flex item":
#content {
flex: 0 0 120px;
}
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/2woqsef1/1/
To shrink-wrap the content, it is even simpler: just remove the flex: ... line from the flex item, and it is automatically shrink-wrapped.
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/2woqsef1/2/
The examples above have been tested on major browsers including MS Edge and Internet Explorer 11.
One technical note if you need to customize it: inside of the flex item, since this flex item is not a flex container itself, the old non-flexbox way of CSS works as expected. However, if you add an additional flex item to the current flex container, the two flex items will be horizontally placed. To make them vertically placed, add the flex-direction: column; to the flex container. This is how it works between a flex container and its immediate child elements.
There is an alternative method of doing the centering: by not specifying center for the distribution on the main and cross axis for the flex container, but instead specify margin: auto on the flex item to take up all extra space in all four directions, and the evenly distributed margins will make the flex item centered in all directions. This works except when there are multiple flex items. Also, this technique works on MS Edge but not on Internet Explorer 11.
Update for 2016 / 2017:
It can be more commonly done with transform, and it works well even in older browsers such as Internet Explorer 10 and Internet Explorer 11. It can support multiple lines of text:
position: relative;
top: 50%;
transform: translateY(-50%);
Example: https://jsfiddle.net/wb8u02kL/1/
To shrink-wrap the width:
The solution above used a fixed width for the content area. To use a shrink-wrapped width, use
position: relative;
float: left;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
Example: https://jsfiddle.net/wb8u02kL/2/
If the support for Internet Explorer 10 is needed, then flexbox won't work and the method above and the line-height method would work. Otherwise, flexbox would do the job.
Common techniques as of 2014:
Approach 1 - transform translateX/translateY:
Example Here / Full Screen Example
In supported browsers (most of them), you can use top: 50%/left: 50% in combination with translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%) to dynamically vertically/horizontally center the element.
.container {
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
}
Approach 2 - Flexbox method:
Example Here / Full Screen Example
In supported browsers, set the display of the targeted element to flex and use align-items: center for vertical centering and justify-content: center for horizontal centering. Just don't forget to add vendor prefixes for additional browser support (see example).
html, body, .container {
height: 100%;
}
.container {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
}
Approach 3 - table-cell/vertical-align: middle:
Example Here / Full Screen Example
In some cases, you will need to ensure that the html/body element's height is set to 100%.
For vertical alignment, set the parent element's width/height to 100% and add display: table. Then for the child element, change the display to table-cell and add vertical-align: middle.
For horizontal centering, you could either add text-align: center to center the text and any other inline children elements. Alternatively, you could use margin: 0 auto assuming the element is block level.
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
.parent {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
display: table;
text-align: center;
}
.parent > .child {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
Approach 4 - Absolutely positioned 50% from the top with displacement:
Example Here / Full Screen Example
This approach assumes that the text has a known height - in this instance, 18px. Just absolutely position the element 50% from the top, relative to the parent element. Use a negative margin-top value that is half of the element's known height, in this case - -9px.
html, body, .container {
height: 100%;
}
.container {
position: relative;
text-align: center;
}
.container > p {
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 0;
right: 0;
margin-top: -9px;
}
Approach 5 - The line-height method (Least flexible - not suggested):
Example Here
In some cases, the parent element will have a fixed height. For vertical centering, all you have to do is set a line-height value on the child element equal to the fixed height of the parent element.
Though this solution will work in some cases, it's worth noting that it won't work when there are multiple lines of text - like this.
.parent {
height: 200px;
width: 400px;
text-align: center;
}
.parent > .child {
line-height: 200px;
}
Methods 4 and 5 aren't the most reliable. Go with one of the first 3.
Using flexbox/CSS:
<div class="box">
<p>അ</p>
</div>
The CSS:
.box{
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
}
Taken from Quick Tip: The Simplest Way To Center Elements Vertically And Horizontally
Add the line display: table-cell; to your CSS content for that div.
Only table cells support the vertical-align: middle;, but you can give that [table-cell] definition to the div...
A live example is here: http://jsfiddle.net/tH2cc/
div{
height: 90px;
width: 90px;
text-align: center;
border: 1px solid silver;
display: table-cell; /* This says treat this element like a table cell */
vertical-align:middle; /* Now we can center vertically like in a TD */
}
Give this CSS class to the targeted <div>:
.centered {
width: 150px;
height: 150px;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
text-align: center;
background: red; /* Not necessary just to see the result clearly */
}
<div class="centered">This text is centered horizontally and vertically</div>
You can try very easy code for this:
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
.box{
height: 90px;
width: 90px;
background: green;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
}
<div class="box">
Lorem
</div>
Codepen link: http://codepen.io/santoshkhalse/pen/xRmZwr
I always use the following CSS for a container, to center its content horizontally and vertically.
display: -webkit-box;
display: -moz-box;
display: -ms-flexbox;
display: -webkit-flex;
display: flex;
-webkit-box-align: center;
-moz-box-align: center;
-ms-flex-align: center;
-webkit-align-items: center;
align-items: center;
-webkit-box-pack: center;
-moz-box-pack: center;
-ms-flex-pack: center;
-webkit-justify-content: center;
justify-content: center;
See it in action here: https://jsfiddle.net/yp1gusn7/
2020 Way
.parent{
display: grid;
place-items: center;
}
You can use the flex property at the parent div and add the margin:auto property to the children items:
.parent {
display: flex;
/* You can change this to `row` if you want the items side by side instead of stacked */
flex-direction: column;
}
/* Change the `p` tag to what your items child items are */
.parent p {
margin: auto;
}
You can see more options of flex here: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
Approach 1
div {
height: 90px;
line-height: 90px;
text-align: center;
border: 2px dashed #f69c55;
}
<div>
Hello, World!!
</div>
Approach 2
div {
height: 200px;
line-height: 200px;
text-align: center;
border: 2px dashed #f69c55;
}
span {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
line-height: normal;
}
<div>
<span>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Haec et tu ita posuisti, et verba vestra sunt. Non enim iam stirpis bonum quaeret, sed animalis. </span>
</div>
Approach 3
div {
display: table;
height: 100px;
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
border: 2px dashed #f69c55;
}
span {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
<div>
<span>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.</span>
</div>
Add the following code in the parent div
display: grid;
place-items: center;
Use:
# Parent
{
display: table;
}
# Child
{
display: table-cell;
width: 100%; /* As large as its parent to center the text horizontally */
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle; /* Vertically align this element on its parent */
}
<div class="small-container">
<span>Text centered</span>
</div>
<style>
.small-container {
width:250px;
height:250px;
border:1px green solid;
text-align:center;
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
-moz-transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
-webkit-transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
}
.small-container span{
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
-moz-transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
-webkit-transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
}
</style>
div {
height: 90px;
line-height: 90px;
text-align: center;
border: 2px dashed #f69c55;
}
<div>
Hello, World!!
</div>
GRID
.center {
display: grid;
justify-items: center;
align-items: center;
}
.center {
display: grid;
justify-items: center;
align-items: center;
}
.box {
width: 200px;
height: 100px;
background: red;
}
<div class="box center">My text</div>
Adjusting line height to get the vertical alignment.
line-height: 90px;
This is really simple code that works for me! It is just one line and your text will be centered horizontally.
.center-horizontally{
justify-content: center;
}
<Card.Footer className="card-body-padding center-horizontally">
<label className="support-expand-text-light">Call or email Customer Support to change</label>
</Card.Footer>
The output looks like this:
.cell-row {display: table; width: 100%; height: 100px; background-color: lightgrey; text-align: center}
.cell {display: table-cell}
.cell-middle {vertical-align: middle}
<div class="cell-row">
<div class="cell cell-middle">Center</div>
</div>
This works for me (tested OK!):
HTML:
<div class="mydiv">
<p>Item to be centered!</p>
</div>
CSS:
.mydiv {
height: 100%; /* Or other */
position: relative;
}
.mydiv p {
margin: 0;
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
margin-right: -50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%); /* To compensate own width and height */
}
You can choose other values than 50%. For example, 25% to center at 25% of parent.
You can try the following methods:
If you have a single word or one line sentence, then the following code can do the trick.
Have a text inside a div tag and give it an id. Define the following properties for that id.
id-name {
height: 90px;
line-height: 90px;
text-align: center;
border: 2px dashed red;
}
Note: Make sure the line-height property is same as the height of the division.
Image
But, if the content is more than one single word or a line then this doesn’t work. Also, there will be times when you cannot specify the size of a division in px or % (when the division is really small and you want the content to be exactly in the middle).
To solve this issue, we can try the following combination of properties.
id-name {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
border: 2px dashed red;
}
Image
These 3 lines of code sets the content exactly in the middle of a division (irrespective of the size of the display). The "align-items: center" helps in vertical centering while "justify-content: center" will make it horizontally centered.
Note: Flex does not work in all browsers. Make sure you add appropriate vendor prefixes for additional browser support.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
.maindiv {
height: 450px;
background: #f8f8f8;
display: -webkit-flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
}
p {
font-size: 24px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="maindiv">
<h1>Title</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
For me this was the best solution:
HTML:
<div id="outer">
<img src="logo.png">
</div>
CSS:
#outer {
position: fixed;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
/* Bring your own prefixes */
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}
This worked for me:
.center-stuff{
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
line-height: 230px; /* This should be the div height */
}
Apply style:
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 0;
right: 0;
Your text would be centered irrespective of its length.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div style ="text-align: center;">Center horizontal text</div>
<div style ="position: absolute; top: 50%; left: 50%; transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);">Center vertical text</div>
</body>
</html>
This should be the right answer. Cleanest and simplest:
.element {
position: relative;
top: 50%;
transform: translateY(-50%);
}
Try the following example. I have added examples for each category: horizontal and vertical
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
#horizontal
{
text-align: center;
}
#vertical
{
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id ="horizontal">Center horizontal text</div>
<div id ="vertical">Center vertical text</div>
</body>
</html>
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;
}
I have a div set to display:block (90px height and width), and I have some text inside.
I need the text to be aligned in the center both vertically and horizontally.
I have tried text-align:center, but it doesn't do the vertical centering part, so I tried vertical-align:middle, but it didn't work.
Any ideas?
If it is one line of text and/or image, then it is easy to do. Just use:
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
line-height: 90px; /* The same as your div height */
That's it. If it can be multiple lines, then it is somewhat more complicated. But there are solutions on http://pmob.co.uk/. Look for "vertical align".
Since they tend to be hacks or adding complicated divs... I usually use a table with a single cell to do it... to make it as simple as possible.
Update for 2020:
Unless you need make it work on earlier browsers such as Internet Explorer 10, you can use flexbox. It is widely supported by all current major browsers. Basically, the container needs to be specified as a flex container, together with centering along its main and cross axis:
#container {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
}
To specify a fixed width for the child, which is called a "flex item":
#content {
flex: 0 0 120px;
}
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/2woqsef1/1/
To shrink-wrap the content, it is even simpler: just remove the flex: ... line from the flex item, and it is automatically shrink-wrapped.
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/2woqsef1/2/
The examples above have been tested on major browsers including MS Edge and Internet Explorer 11.
One technical note if you need to customize it: inside of the flex item, since this flex item is not a flex container itself, the old non-flexbox way of CSS works as expected. However, if you add an additional flex item to the current flex container, the two flex items will be horizontally placed. To make them vertically placed, add the flex-direction: column; to the flex container. This is how it works between a flex container and its immediate child elements.
There is an alternative method of doing the centering: by not specifying center for the distribution on the main and cross axis for the flex container, but instead specify margin: auto on the flex item to take up all extra space in all four directions, and the evenly distributed margins will make the flex item centered in all directions. This works except when there are multiple flex items. Also, this technique works on MS Edge but not on Internet Explorer 11.
Update for 2016 / 2017:
It can be more commonly done with transform, and it works well even in older browsers such as Internet Explorer 10 and Internet Explorer 11. It can support multiple lines of text:
position: relative;
top: 50%;
transform: translateY(-50%);
Example: https://jsfiddle.net/wb8u02kL/1/
To shrink-wrap the width:
The solution above used a fixed width for the content area. To use a shrink-wrapped width, use
position: relative;
float: left;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
Example: https://jsfiddle.net/wb8u02kL/2/
If the support for Internet Explorer 10 is needed, then flexbox won't work and the method above and the line-height method would work. Otherwise, flexbox would do the job.
Common techniques as of 2014:
Approach 1 - transform translateX/translateY:
Example Here / Full Screen Example
In supported browsers (most of them), you can use top: 50%/left: 50% in combination with translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%) to dynamically vertically/horizontally center the element.
.container {
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
}
Approach 2 - Flexbox method:
Example Here / Full Screen Example
In supported browsers, set the display of the targeted element to flex and use align-items: center for vertical centering and justify-content: center for horizontal centering. Just don't forget to add vendor prefixes for additional browser support (see example).
html, body, .container {
height: 100%;
}
.container {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
}
Approach 3 - table-cell/vertical-align: middle:
Example Here / Full Screen Example
In some cases, you will need to ensure that the html/body element's height is set to 100%.
For vertical alignment, set the parent element's width/height to 100% and add display: table. Then for the child element, change the display to table-cell and add vertical-align: middle.
For horizontal centering, you could either add text-align: center to center the text and any other inline children elements. Alternatively, you could use margin: 0 auto assuming the element is block level.
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
.parent {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
display: table;
text-align: center;
}
.parent > .child {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
Approach 4 - Absolutely positioned 50% from the top with displacement:
Example Here / Full Screen Example
This approach assumes that the text has a known height - in this instance, 18px. Just absolutely position the element 50% from the top, relative to the parent element. Use a negative margin-top value that is half of the element's known height, in this case - -9px.
html, body, .container {
height: 100%;
}
.container {
position: relative;
text-align: center;
}
.container > p {
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 0;
right: 0;
margin-top: -9px;
}
Approach 5 - The line-height method (Least flexible - not suggested):
Example Here
In some cases, the parent element will have a fixed height. For vertical centering, all you have to do is set a line-height value on the child element equal to the fixed height of the parent element.
Though this solution will work in some cases, it's worth noting that it won't work when there are multiple lines of text - like this.
.parent {
height: 200px;
width: 400px;
text-align: center;
}
.parent > .child {
line-height: 200px;
}
Methods 4 and 5 aren't the most reliable. Go with one of the first 3.
Using flexbox/CSS:
<div class="box">
<p>അ</p>
</div>
The CSS:
.box{
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
}
Taken from Quick Tip: The Simplest Way To Center Elements Vertically And Horizontally
Add the line display: table-cell; to your CSS content for that div.
Only table cells support the vertical-align: middle;, but you can give that [table-cell] definition to the div...
A live example is here: http://jsfiddle.net/tH2cc/
div{
height: 90px;
width: 90px;
text-align: center;
border: 1px solid silver;
display: table-cell; /* This says treat this element like a table cell */
vertical-align:middle; /* Now we can center vertically like in a TD */
}
Give this CSS class to the targeted <div>:
.centered {
width: 150px;
height: 150px;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
text-align: center;
background: red; /* Not necessary just to see the result clearly */
}
<div class="centered">This text is centered horizontally and vertically</div>
You can try very easy code for this:
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
.box{
height: 90px;
width: 90px;
background: green;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
}
<div class="box">
Lorem
</div>
Codepen link: http://codepen.io/santoshkhalse/pen/xRmZwr
I always use the following CSS for a container, to center its content horizontally and vertically.
display: -webkit-box;
display: -moz-box;
display: -ms-flexbox;
display: -webkit-flex;
display: flex;
-webkit-box-align: center;
-moz-box-align: center;
-ms-flex-align: center;
-webkit-align-items: center;
align-items: center;
-webkit-box-pack: center;
-moz-box-pack: center;
-ms-flex-pack: center;
-webkit-justify-content: center;
justify-content: center;
See it in action here: https://jsfiddle.net/yp1gusn7/
2020 Way
.parent{
display: grid;
place-items: center;
}
You can use the flex property at the parent div and add the margin:auto property to the children items:
.parent {
display: flex;
/* You can change this to `row` if you want the items side by side instead of stacked */
flex-direction: column;
}
/* Change the `p` tag to what your items child items are */
.parent p {
margin: auto;
}
You can see more options of flex here: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
Approach 1
div {
height: 90px;
line-height: 90px;
text-align: center;
border: 2px dashed #f69c55;
}
<div>
Hello, World!!
</div>
Approach 2
div {
height: 200px;
line-height: 200px;
text-align: center;
border: 2px dashed #f69c55;
}
span {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
line-height: normal;
}
<div>
<span>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Haec et tu ita posuisti, et verba vestra sunt. Non enim iam stirpis bonum quaeret, sed animalis. </span>
</div>
Approach 3
div {
display: table;
height: 100px;
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
border: 2px dashed #f69c55;
}
span {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
<div>
<span>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.</span>
</div>
Add the following code in the parent div
display: grid;
place-items: center;
Use:
# Parent
{
display: table;
}
# Child
{
display: table-cell;
width: 100%; /* As large as its parent to center the text horizontally */
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle; /* Vertically align this element on its parent */
}
<div class="small-container">
<span>Text centered</span>
</div>
<style>
.small-container {
width:250px;
height:250px;
border:1px green solid;
text-align:center;
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
-moz-transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
-webkit-transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
}
.small-container span{
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
-moz-transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
-webkit-transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
}
</style>
div {
height: 90px;
line-height: 90px;
text-align: center;
border: 2px dashed #f69c55;
}
<div>
Hello, World!!
</div>
GRID
.center {
display: grid;
justify-items: center;
align-items: center;
}
.center {
display: grid;
justify-items: center;
align-items: center;
}
.box {
width: 200px;
height: 100px;
background: red;
}
<div class="box center">My text</div>
Adjusting line height to get the vertical alignment.
line-height: 90px;
This is really simple code that works for me! It is just one line and your text will be centered horizontally.
.center-horizontally{
justify-content: center;
}
<Card.Footer className="card-body-padding center-horizontally">
<label className="support-expand-text-light">Call or email Customer Support to change</label>
</Card.Footer>
The output looks like this:
.cell-row {display: table; width: 100%; height: 100px; background-color: lightgrey; text-align: center}
.cell {display: table-cell}
.cell-middle {vertical-align: middle}
<div class="cell-row">
<div class="cell cell-middle">Center</div>
</div>
This works for me (tested OK!):
HTML:
<div class="mydiv">
<p>Item to be centered!</p>
</div>
CSS:
.mydiv {
height: 100%; /* Or other */
position: relative;
}
.mydiv p {
margin: 0;
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
margin-right: -50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%); /* To compensate own width and height */
}
You can choose other values than 50%. For example, 25% to center at 25% of parent.
You can try the following methods:
If you have a single word or one line sentence, then the following code can do the trick.
Have a text inside a div tag and give it an id. Define the following properties for that id.
id-name {
height: 90px;
line-height: 90px;
text-align: center;
border: 2px dashed red;
}
Note: Make sure the line-height property is same as the height of the division.
Image
But, if the content is more than one single word or a line then this doesn’t work. Also, there will be times when you cannot specify the size of a division in px or % (when the division is really small and you want the content to be exactly in the middle).
To solve this issue, we can try the following combination of properties.
id-name {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
border: 2px dashed red;
}
Image
These 3 lines of code sets the content exactly in the middle of a division (irrespective of the size of the display). The "align-items: center" helps in vertical centering while "justify-content: center" will make it horizontally centered.
Note: Flex does not work in all browsers. Make sure you add appropriate vendor prefixes for additional browser support.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
.maindiv {
height: 450px;
background: #f8f8f8;
display: -webkit-flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
}
p {
font-size: 24px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="maindiv">
<h1>Title</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
For me this was the best solution:
HTML:
<div id="outer">
<img src="logo.png">
</div>
CSS:
#outer {
position: fixed;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
/* Bring your own prefixes */
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}
This worked for me:
.center-stuff{
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
line-height: 230px; /* This should be the div height */
}
Apply style:
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 0;
right: 0;
Your text would be centered irrespective of its length.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div style ="text-align: center;">Center horizontal text</div>
<div style ="position: absolute; top: 50%; left: 50%; transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);">Center vertical text</div>
</body>
</html>
This should be the right answer. Cleanest and simplest:
.element {
position: relative;
top: 50%;
transform: translateY(-50%);
}
Try the following example. I have added examples for each category: horizontal and vertical
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
#horizontal
{
text-align: center;
}
#vertical
{
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id ="horizontal">Center horizontal text</div>
<div id ="vertical">Center vertical text</div>
</body>
</html>
This question already has answers here:
How to vertically align an image inside a div
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I have a div 200 x 200 px. I want to place a 50 x 50 px image right in the middle of the div.
How can it be done?
I am able to get it centered horizontally by using text-align: center for the div. But vertical alignment is the issue..
Working in old browsers (IE >= 8)
Absolute position in combination with automatic margin permits to center an element horizontally and vertically. The element position could be based on a parent element position using relative positioning. View Result
img {
position: absolute;
margin: auto;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
}
Personally, I'd place it as the background image within the div, the CSS for that being:
#demo {
background: url(bg_apple_little.gif) no-repeat center center;
height: 200px;
width: 200px;
}
(Assumes a div with id="demo" as you are already specifying height and width adding a background shouldn't be an issue)
Let the browser take the strain.
another way is to create a table with valign, of course. This would work regardless of you knowing the div's height or not.
<div>
<table width="100%" height="100%" align="center" valign="center">
<tr><td>
<img src="foo.jpg" alt="foo" />
</td></tr>
</table>
</div>
but you should always stick to just css whenever possible.
I would set your larger div with position:relative; then for your image do this:
img.classname{
position:absolute;
top:50%;
left:50%;
margin-top:-25px;
margin-left:-25px;
}
This only works because you know the dimensions of both the image and the containing div. This will also let you have other items within the containing div... where solutions like using line-height will not.
EDIT: Note... your margins are negative half of the size of the image.
This works correctly:
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto
else try this if the above only gives you horizontal centering:
.outerContainer {
position: relative;
}
.innerContainer {
width: 50px; //your image/element width here
height: 50px; //your image/element height here
overflow: auto;
margin: auto;
position: absolute;
top: 0; left: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0;
}
Use Flexbox:
.outerDiv {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
justify-content: center; /* Centering y-axis */
align-items :center; /* Centering x-axis */
}
here's another method to center everything within anything.
Working Fiddle
HTML: (simple as ever)
<div class="Container">
<div class="Content"> /*this can be an img, span, or everything else*/
I'm the Content
</div>
</div>
CSS:
.Container
{
text-align: center;
}
.Container:before
{
content: '';
height: 100%;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
}
.Content
{
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
}
Benefits
The Container and Content height are unknown.
Centering without specific negative margin, without setting the line-height (so it works well with multiple line of text) and without a script, also Works great with CSS transitions.
This is coming a bit late, but here's a solution I use to vertical align elements within a parent div.
This is useful for when you know the size of the container div, but not that of the contained image. (this is frequently the case when working with lightboxes or image carousels).
Here's the styling you should try:
container div
{
display:table-cell;
vertical-align:middle;
height:200px;
width:200px;
}
img
{
/*Apply any styling here*/
}
I've found that Valamas' and Lepu's answers above are the most straightforward answers that deal with images of unknown size, or of known size that you'd rather not hard-code into your CSS. I just have a few small tweaks: remove irrelevant styles, size it to 200px to match the question, and add max-height/max-width to handle images that may be too large.
div.image-thumbnail
{
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
line-height: 200px;
text-align: center;
}
div.image-thumbnail img
{
vertical-align: middle;
max-height: 200px;
max-width: 200px;
}
in the div
style="text-align:center; line-height:200px"
We can easily achieve this using flex. no need for background-image.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
#image-wrapper{
width:500px;
height:500px;
border:1px solid #333;
display:flex;
justify-content:center;
align-items:center;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="image-wrapper">
<img id="myImage" src="http://blog.w3c.br/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/css31-213x300.png">
</div>
</body>
</html>
Vertical-align is one of the most misused css styles. It doesn't work how you might expect on elements that are not td's or css "display: table-cell".
This is a very good post on the matter. http://phrogz.net/CSS/vertical-align/index.html
The most common methods to acheive what you're looking for are:
padding top/bottom
position absolute
line-height
In CSS do it as:
img
{
display:table-cell;
vertical-align:middle;
margin:auto;
}
#sleepy You can easily do this using the following attributes:
#content {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
border: 1px solid red;
}
#myImage {
display: block;
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
margin: auto;
border: 1px solid yellow;
}
<div id="content">
<img id="myImage" src="http://blog.w3c.br/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/css31-213x300.png">
</div>
References: W3
Typically, I'll set the line-height to be 200px. Usually does the trick.
I have a gallery of images for which I don't know the exact heights or widths of images beforhand, I just know that they are smaller than the div in which they are going to be contained.
By doing a combination of line-height settings on the container and using vertical-align:middle on the image element, I finally got it to work on FF 3.5, Safari 4.0 and IE7.0 using the following HTML markup and the following CSS.
The HTML Markup
<div id="gallery">
<div class="painting">
<a href="Painting/Details/2">
<img src="/Content/Images/Paintings/Thumbnail/painting_00002.jpg" />
</a>
</div>
<div class="painting">
...
</div>
...
</div>
The CSS
div.painting
{
float:left;
height:138px; /* fixed dimensions */
width: 138px;
border: solid 1px white;
background-color:#F5F5F5;
line-height:138px;
text-align:center;
}
div.painting a img
{
border:none;
vertical-align:middle;
}
This works for me :
<body>
<table id="table-foo">
<tr><td>
<img src="foo.png" />
</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
<style type="text/css">
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
#table-foo {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
}
#table-foo img {
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
}
</style>
Another way (not mentioned here yet) is with Flexbox.
Just set the following rules on the container div:
display: flex;
justify-content: center; /* align horizontal */
align-items: center; /* align vertical */
FIDDLE
div {
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
border: 1px solid green;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
/* align horizontal */
align-items: center;
/* align vertical */
}
<div>
<img src="http://lorempixel.com/50/50/food" alt="" />
</div>
A good place to start with Flexbox to see some of it's features and get syntax for maximum browser support is flexyboxes
Also, browser support nowadays is quite good: caniuse
For cross-browser compatibility for display: flex and align-items, you can use the following:
display: -webkit-box;
display: -webkit-flex;
display: -moz-box;
display: -ms-flexbox;
display: flex;
-webkit-flex-align: center;
-ms-flex-align: center;
-webkit-align-items: center;
align-items: center;
This is an old solution but browser market shares have advanced enough that you may be able to get by without the IE hack part of it if you are not concerned about degrading for IE7. This works when you know the dimensions of the outer container but may or may not know the dimensions of the inner image.
.parent {
display: table;
height: 200px; /* can be percentages, too, like 100% */
width: 200px; /* can be percentages, too, like 100% */
}
.child {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
margin: 0 auto;
}
<div class="parent">
<div class="child">
<img src="foo.png" alt="bar" />
</div>
</div>
easy
img {
transform: translate(50%,50%);
}
You can set position of image is align center horizontal by this
#imageId {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right:auto;
}
I've been trying to get an image to be centered vertically and horizontally within a circle shape using hmtl and css.
After combining several points from this thread, here's what I came up with: jsFiddle
Here's another example of this within a three column layout: jsFiddle
CSS:
#circle {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background: #A7A9AB;
-moz-border-radius: 50px;
-webkit-border-radius: 50px;
border-radius: 50px;
margin: 0 auto;
position: relative;
}
.images {
position: absolute;
margin: auto;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
}
HTML:
<div id="circle">
<img class="images" src="https://png.icons8.com/facebook-like-filled/ios7/50" />
</div>
You can center an image horizontally and vertically with the code below (works in IE/FF).
It will put the top edge of the image at exactly 50% of the browser height, and the margin-top(pulling half the height of the image up) will center it perfectly.
<style type="text/css">
#middle {position: absolute; top: 50%;} /* for explorer only*/
#middle[id] {vertical-align: middle; width: 100%;}
#inner {position: relative; top: -50%} /* for explorer only */
</style>
<body style="background-color:#eeeeee">
<div id="middle">
<div id="inner" align="center" style="margin-top:...px"> /* the number will be half the height of your image, so for example if the height is 500px then you will put 250px for the margin-top */
<img src="..." height="..." width="..." />
</div>
</div>
</body>
I love jumping on old bandwagons!
Here's a 2015 update to this answer. I started using CSS3 transform to do my dirty work for positioning. This allows you to not have to make any extra HTML, you don't have to do math (finding half-widths of things) you can use it on any element!
Here's an example (with fiddle at the end). Your HTML:
<div class="bigDiv">
<div class="smallDiv">
</div>
</div>
With accompanying CSS:
.bigDiv {
width:200px;
height:200px;
background-color:#efefef;
position:relative;
}
.smallDiv {
width:50px;
height:50px;
background-color:#cc0000;
position:absolute;
top:50%;
left:50%;
transform:translate(-50%, -50%);
}
What I do a lot these days is I will give a class to things I want centered and just re-use that class every time. For example:
<div class="bigDiv">
<div class="smallDiv centerThis">
</div>
</div>
css
.bigDiv {
width:200px;
height:200px;
background-color:#efefef;
position:relative;
}
.smallDiv {
width:50px;
height:50px;
background-color:#cc0000;
}
.centerThis {
position:absolute;
top:50%;
left:50%;
transform:translate(-50%, -50%);
}
This way, I will always be able to center something in it's container. You just have to make sure that the thing you want centered is in a container that has a position defined.
Here's a fiddle
BTW: This works for centering BIGGER divs inside SMALLER divs as well.
div {
position: absolute;
border: 3px solid green;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
}
img {
position: relative;
border: 3px solid red;
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
}
.center {
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
-ms-transform: translate(-50%, -50%); /* IE 9 */
-webkit-transform: translate(-50%, -50%); /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
}
<div class="center">
<img class="center" src="http://placeholders.org/250/000/fff" />
</div>
Related: Center a image
thanks to everyone else for the clues.
I used this method
div.image-thumbnail
{
width: 85px;
height: 85px;
line-height: 85px;
display: inline-block;
text-align: center;
}
div.image-thumbnail img
{
vertical-align: middle;
}
Use positioning. The following worked for me:
div{
display:block;
overflow:hidden;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
position: relative;
}
div img{
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
bottom: 50%;
right: 50%;
position: absolute;
}
Simply set image margin auto as shown below.
img{
margin:auto;
width:50%;
height:auto;
}
Check these example
.container {
height: 200px;
width: 200px;
float:left;
position:relative;
}
.children-with-img {
position: absolute;
width:50px;
height:50px;
left:50%;
top:50%;
transform:translate(-50%);
}
If you know the size of the parent div and the image, you can just use absolute positioning.