I have a div that I want to position at the center of a page(both vertically and horizontally).
For centring it horizontally I used the center tags around the div and for vertically centring it is tried a couple of things but none of them actually working.
Check out the code:
CSS:
.vcenter{
height: 50px;
width: 50px;
background: red;
vertical-align: middle;
margin-top: calc(50% - 25px);
}
HTML :
<center>
<div class="vcenter">
</div>
<center>
Also I don't think using centre tags around the the div to centre an object is the best way to so it.
What I want to know is
How can I centre the div both vertically and horizontally no matter what the size of the screen is ?
Is there a better way to centre the div horizontally rather than using the center tags ?
If available, using flex is the easiest. Apply these styles to the container in which you want to center your div:
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
#divId {
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}
The only thing that isn't obvious is the transform takes into account the size of the element.
Related
So I am trying to vertical align and horizontal a textbox span inside a parent div, the problem is it can valign or halign fine, not both. If it is a one line text it works fine, but if it is a long paragraph that takes multiple lines of the parent div, it does not vertical align.
.objprevicnt {
position: absolute;
margin: 0;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
width:inherit;
height:50px;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}
also I am changing the text dynamically
document.getElementById("myid").innerHTML = 'some text';
so it should recenter as appropriate.
You would think this would be a simple thing, vertical and horizontal centering of a box inside another box, should work regardless of the size of text inside the box.
I think these CSS properties will work. Please try this.
#parent_div{
display:flex;
align-items:center;
direction:column;
}
#child_element{
display:flex;
align-self: center;
}
The easiest way to center an element inside a parent element would probably be using flexbox:
.parent {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
}
.child {
display: block;
}
I am trying to center items (vertically and horizontally) within a div. I have looked around here and other places and can't seem to get anything to work. What I am looking for is to have each item centered both vertically and horizontally in its respective div. Notice that there are two navigation tiles on the left and 4 on the right (1 div per tile). The divs also have parent divs which I used to build the sticky footer. The challenge is that it needs to be responsive so I cannot used fixed pixels.
.absolute-center {
position: relative;
left: 50%;
top: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%,-50%);
}
The above is what I tried to get the content centered. Its not working unfortunately.
Here's the fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/jmc3t164/
Any help is greatly appreciated!
You have this structure (shortened for brevity)
<div class='top-half'>
<p class='absolute-center'>Time left to order</p>
</div>
<div class='bottom-half'>
<p class='absolute-center'>Add Produce</p>
</div>
Centering both vertically and horizontally is often acheieved by
.absolute-center {
position: absolute; /* note */
left: 50%;
top: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}
BUT this requires that the parent element (in which the child will be centered) has position:relative.
So, you need to add that
.top-half {
width: 100%;
height: 50%;
position: relative;
}
.bottom-half {
width: 100%;
height: 50%;
position:relative;
}
JSFiddle Demo
<div id="blahblah" style="width:90%;margin:auto 5%"> content </div><br> blahblah can be any id you want, or not necessary.<br> You definitely need a width of something, ideally less than 100%; and divide the remainder from 100 by 2 and set it as margin. ( margin: auto is for up and down margings, the 5%, or whatever is for left / right.
Another way is to have a class .center{text-align:center} and assign it to your Div.
Finally, yet another is to insert a div under your position relevant div and style it with 'text-align:center.
I have a div with image "image.jpg".
By using text-align=center, the image is being centered horizontally.
However it's not vertically aligned. How would I implement the vertical alignment?
<div style="vertical-align: middle;text-align:center;">
<img title="Title3" src="image.jpg" style="display: inline;" id="idImage">
</div>
Use the vertical-align property as described in this article. Note that in order to get vertical-align to work you need to do display: table-cell as well.
div.centered {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
text-align: center;
/* other styling */
}
Where I've given your <div> the class name of centered.
Also you shouldn't use text-align for centering, but instead add margin: 0 auto; to the image styling.
EDIT
HTML:
<div class="centered">
<img src="..." class="centered-image" />
</div>
CSS:
div.centered {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
img.centered-image {
margin: 0 auto;
}
If you set the height of the parent container and set your margin-top: auto, it should align to the middle I think. This works with horizontally aligning, but I haven't tried with vertical. Anyways, it would avoid absolute positioning
As mentioned before, you can also use javascript to find the height, then set the margin, something like this:
var image = document.getElementById("myImage");
var imgHeight = image.style.height;
image.style.marginTop = -(imgHeight/2);
image.style.top = 50%; //you can probably just set this in css and omit this line
you must of course set
#myImage{
position: absolute;
}
though
You have to know the dimensions for this to work (or use javascript to get the dimensions if you'll have different ones). This will also center the image horizontally (so you don't need your text-align=center )
Taken from css-tricks
.center {
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
top: 50%;
margin-left: -150px;
margin-top: -150px;
}
height and width are that of the image in question and the top and left margins are set at half the respective height and width.
I have a h1 within the body and want to vertically align and center align this text.
I know I can use the position: absolute; and then margin-top: "HALF OF HEIGHT"; but this h1 changes on refresh and has different widths. The height is always the same so I can vertically align it fine but it's center aligning it. I can't use text-align: center; becuase the h1 is positioned absolute so it won't work.
Is there an easier way to do this?
Thanks!
Given that the element doesn't have a background, you could do this to horizontally center an element with absolute positioning:
.your-element {
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
}
A working fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/VSySg/
Depending on the rest of your layout, this may work:
h1 {
display: block;
text-align: center;
line-height: /* height of container */
}
http://jsfiddle.net/xC3vn/
This question already has answers here:
How to center an element horizontally and vertically
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Closed 8 years ago.
I have a css class defined so I can make a div to use all the browser's viewport, the rule is the following:
.fullscreenDiv {
background-color: #e8e8e8;
width: 100%;
height: auto;
bottom: 0px;
top: 0px;
left: 0;
position: absolute;
}
Now I want the text inside the div to be in the exact center of the screen so, vertical align center and horizontal align middle, but I can't seem to find the proper way to do so.
It only needs to work on webkit based browsers.
I already tried to add a P element inside with display set to table-cell (a common way of centering text) without luck.
Any suggestions?
The accepted answer works, but if:
you don't know the content's dimensions
the content is dynamic
you want to be future proof
use this:
.centered {
position: fixed; /* or absolute */
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
/* bring your own prefixes */
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}
More information about centering content in this excellent CSS-Tricks article.
Also, if you don't need to support old browsers: a flex-box makes this a piece of cake:
.center{
height: 100vh;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
}
Another great guide about flexboxs from CSS Tricks; http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
The standard approach is to give the centered element fixed dimensions, and place it absolutely:
<div class='fullscreenDiv'>
<div class="center">Hello World</div>
</div>
.center {
position: absolute;
width: 100px;
height: 50px;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -50px; /* margin is -0.5 * dimension */
margin-top: -25px;
}
DEMO
There is no pure CSS solution to this classical problem.
If you want to achieve this, you have two solutions:
Using a table (ugly, non semantic, but the only way to vertically align things that are not a single line of text)
Listening to window.resize and absolute positionning
EDIT: when I say that there is no solution, I take as an hypothesis that you don't know in advance the size of the block to center. If you know it, paislee's solution is very good
text-align: center will center it horizontally as for vertically put it in a span and give it a css of margin:auto 0; (you will probably also have to give the span a display: block property)