Why won't vertical-align: middle work? And yet, vertical-align: top does work.
span{
vertical-align: middle;
}
<div>
<img src="https://via.placeholder.com/30" alt="small img" />
<span>Doesn't work.</span>
</div>
Actually, in this case it's quite simple: apply the vertical align to the image. Since it's all in one line, it's really the image you want aligned, not the text.
<!-- moved "vertical-align:middle" style from span to img -->
<div>
<img style="vertical-align:middle" src="https://via.placeholder.com/60x60" alt="A grey image showing text 60 x 60">
<span style="">Works.</span>
</div>
Tested in FF3.
Now you can use flexbox for this type of layout.
.box {
display: flex;
align-items:center;
}
<div class="box">
<img src="https://via.placeholder.com/60x60">
<span style="">Works.</span>
</div>
Here are some simple techniques for vertical-align:
One-line vertical-align:middle
This one is easy: set the line-height of the text element to equal that of the container
<div>
<img style="width:30px; height:30px;">
<span style="line-height:30px;">Doesn't work.</span>
</div>
Multiple-lines vertical-align:bottom
Absolutely position an inner div relative to its container
<div style="position:relative;width:30px;height:60px;">
<div style="position:absolute;bottom:0">This is positioned on the bottom</div>
</div>
Multiple-lines vertical-align:middle
<div style="display:table;width:30px;height:60px;">
<div style="display:table-cell;height:30px;">This is positioned in the middle</div>
</div>
If you must support ancient versions of IE <= 7
In order to get this to work correctly across the board, you'll have to hack the CSS a bit. Luckily, there is an IE bug that works in our favor. Setting top:50% on the container and top:-50% on the inner div, you can achieve the same result. We can combine the two using another feature IE doesn't support: advanced CSS selectors.
<style type="text/css">
#container {
width: 30px;
height: 60px;
position: relative;
}
#wrapper > #container {
display: table;
position: static;
}
#container div {
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
}
#container div div {
position: relative;
top: -50%;
}
#container > div {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
position: static;
}
</style>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="container">
<div><div><p>Works in everything!</p></div></div>
</div>
</div>
Variable container height vertical-align:middle
This solution requires a slightly more modern browser than the other solutions, as it makes use of the transform: translateY property. (http://caniuse.com/#feat=transforms2d)
Applying the following 3 lines of CSS to an element will vertically centre it within its parent regardless of the height of the parent element:
position: relative;
top: 50%;
transform: translateY(-50%);
Change your div into a flex container:
div { display: flex; }
Now there are two methods to center the alignments for all the content:
Method 1:
div { align-items: center; }
DEMO
Method 2:
div * { margin: auto 0; }
DEMO
Try different width and height values on the img and different font size values on the span and you'll see they always remain in the middle of the container.
You have to apply vertical-align: middle to both elements to have it been centered perfectly.
<div>
<img style="vertical-align:middle" src="http://lorempixel.com/60/60/">
<span style="vertical-align:middle">Perfectly centered</span>
</div>
The accepted answer does center the icon around half of the x-height of the text next to it (as defined in the CSS specs). Which might be good enough but can look a little bit off, if the text has ascenders or descenders standing out just at top or bottom:
On the left, the text is not aligned, on the right it is as shown above. A live demo can be found in this article about vertical-align.
Has anyone talked about why vertical-align: top works in the scenario? The image in the question is probably taller than the text and thus defines the top edge of the line box. vertical-align: top on the span element then just positions it at the top of the line box.
The main difference in behavior between vertical-align: middle and top is that the first moves elements relative to the box's baseline (which is placed wherever needed to fulfill all vertical alignments and thus feels rather unpredictable) and the second relative to the outer bounds of the line box (which is more tangible).
The technique used in the accepted answer works only for single-lined text (demo), but not multi-line text (demo) - as noted there.
If anyone needs to vertically center multi-lined text to an image, here are a few ways
(Methods 1 and 2 inspired by this CSS-Tricks article)
Method #1: CSS tables (FIDDLE) (IE8+ (caniuse))
CSS:
div {
display: table;
}
span {
vertical-align: middle;
display: table-cell;
}
Method #2: Pseudo element on container (FIDDLE) (IE8+)
CSS:
div {
height: 200px; /* height of image */
}
div:before {
content: '';
display: inline-block;
height: 100%;
vertical-align: middle;
margin-right: -0.25em; /* Adjusts for spacing */
}
img {
position: absolute;
}
span {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
margin-left: 200px; /* width of image */
}
Method #3: Flexbox (FIDDLE) (caniuse)
CSS (The above fiddle contains vendor prefixes):
div {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
}
img {
min-width: 200px; /* width of image */
}
This code works in IE as well as FF:
<div>
<img style="width:auto; height:auto;vertical-align: middle;">
<span>It does work on all browsers</span>
</div>
Because you have to set the line-height to the height of the div for this to work
For the record, alignment "commands" shouldn't work on a SPAN, because it is an in-line tag, not a block-level tag. Things like alignment, margin, padding, etc won't work on an in-line tag because the point of inline is not to disrupt the text flow.
CSS divides HTML tags up into two groups: in-line and block-level. Search "css block vs inline" and a great article shows up...
http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/html-css/css-block-and-inline/
(Understanding core CSS principles is a key to it not being quite so annoying)
Basically, you'll have to get down to CSS3.
-moz-box-align: center;
-webkit-box-align: center;
Use line-height:30px for the span so that text is align with the image:
<div>
<img style="width:30px; height:30px;">
<span style="line-height:30px;">Doesn't work.</span>
</div>
Another thing you can do is set the text's line-height to the size of the images within the <div>. Then set the images to vertical-align: middle;
That's seriously the easiest way.
Haven't seen a solution with margin in any of these answers yet, so here is my solution to this problem.
This solution only works if you know the width of your image.
The HTML
<div>
<img src="https://placehold.it/80x80">
<span>This is my very long text what should align. This is my very long text what should align.</span>
</div>
The CSS
div {
overflow:hidden;
}
img {
width:80px
margin-right:20px;
display:inline-block;
vertical-align:middle;
}
span {
width:100%;
margin-right:-100px;
padding-right:100px;
display:inline-block;
vertical-align:middle;
box-sizing:border-box;
-moz-box-sizing:border-box;
-webkit-box-sizing:border-box;
}
Write these span properties
span{
display:inline-block;
vertical-align:middle;
}
Use display:inline-block; When you use vertical-align property.Those are assosiated properties
background:url(../images/red_bullet.jpg) left 3px no-repeat;
I generally use 3px in place of top. By increasing/decreasing that value, the image can be changed to the required height.
You can set image as inline element using display property
<div>
<img style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline;" src="https://placehold.it/60x60">
<span style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline;">Works.</span>
</div>
Using flex property in css.
To align text vertically center by using in flex using align-items:center; if you want to align text horizontally center by using in flex using justify-content:center;.
div{
display: flex;
align-items: center;
}
<div>
<img src="http://lorempixel.com/30/30/" alt="small img" />
<span>It works.</span>
</div>
Using table-cell in css.
div{
display: table;
}
div *{
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
<div>
<img src="http://lorempixel.com/30/30/" alt="small img" />
<span>It works.</span>
</div>
On a button in jQuery mobile, for instance, you can tweak it a bit by applying this style to the image:
.btn-image {
vertical-align:middle;
margin:0 0 3px 0;
}
Multiline solution:
http://jsfiddle.net/zH58L/6/
<div style="display:table;width:30px;height:160px;">
<img style="display:table-cell;width:30px;height:60px;padding:50px" src='...' />
<div style="display:table-cell;height:30px;vertical-align:middle">
Multiline text centered vertically
</div>
</div>
<!-- note: img (height + 2x padding) must be equal to root div height -->
Works in all browers and ie9+
It can be confusing, I agree. Try utilizing table features. I use this simple CSS trick to position modals at the center of the webpage. It has large browser support:
<div class="table">
<div class="cell">
<img src="..." alt="..." />
<span>It works now</span>
</div>
</div>
and CSS part:
.table { display: table; }
.cell { display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle; }
Note that you have to style and adjust the size of image and table container to make it work as you desire. Enjoy.
Display flex with align-items: center; is the best way for vertically align the items
div {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
}
<div>
<img src="https://via.placeholder.com/30" alt="small img" />
<span>it works.</span>
</div>
div {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
}
<div>
<img src="http://lorempixel.com/30/30/" alt="small img" />
<span>It works.</span>
</div>
Firstly inline CSS is not recommended at all, it really mess up your HTML.
For aligning image and span, you can simply do vertical-align:middle.
.align-middle {
vertical-align: middle;
}
<div>
<img class="align-middle" src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ymxaR.png">
<span class="align-middle">I'm in the middle of the image! thanks to CSS! hooray!</span>
</div>
Not sure as to why it doesn't render it on your navigation's browser, but I normally use an snippet like this when trying to display a header with an image and a centered text, hope it helps!
https://output.jsbin.com/jeqorahupo
<hgroup style="display:block; text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; margin:inherit auto; padding:inherit auto; max-height:inherit">
<header style="background:url('http://lorempixel.com/30/30/') center center no-repeat; background-size:auto; display:inner-block; vertical-align:middle; position:relative; position:absolute; top:inherit; left:inherit; 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;">
<image src="http://lorempixel.com/60/60/" title="Img title" style="opacity:0.35"></img>
http://lipsum.org</header>
</hgroup>
In 2022 and with nearly 96% unprefixed browser support, I'm surprised no one has suggested the use of a grid layout.
In this JSFiddle, 3 lines are all that are necessary to achieve the OP's objective (but multiple alignments are presented for comparison):
div {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: min-content max-content;
align-items: center
}
An additional UI nicety would include the optional use of the gap property, which enables modulation of the space between each grid-item within the parent grid container (div).
Advantages of grid layout
Easy vertical AND horizontal alignment of grid-items
Modulation of space between grid-items
Any size image (using min-content) and text length (one line using max-content or wrapped (not shown in fiddle) using min-content) would work - no need to hard-code the image dimensions in the CSS (both usages demonstrated in the demonstrated in JSFiddle)
Modern approach
Disadvantages of grid layout
Older browser support is more challenging
Grid layouts generally require more experienced developers to implement properly - not as simple as block/inline-block display
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
.block-system-branding-block {
flex: 0 1 40%;
}
#media screen and (min-width: 48em) {
.block-system-branding-block {
flex: 0 1 420px;
margin: 2.5rem 0;
text-align: left;
}
}
.flex-containerrow {
display: flex;
}
.flex-containerrow > div {
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
}
.flex-containercolumn {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.flex-containercolumn > div {
width: 300px;
margin: 10px;
text-align: left;
line-height: 20px;
font-size: 16px;
}
.flex-containercolumn > site-slogan {font-size: 12px;}
.flex-containercolumn > div > span{ font-size: 12px;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="block-umami-branding" class="block-system block-
system-branding-block">
<div class="flex-containerrow">
<div>
<a href="/" rel="home" class="site-logo">
<img src="https://placehold.it/120x120" alt="Home">
</a>
</div><div class="flex-containerrow"><div class="flex-containercolumn">
<div class="site-name ">
This is my sitename
</div>
<div class="site-slogan "><span>Department of Test | Ministry of Test |
TGoII</span></div>
</div></div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
You probably want this:
<div>
<img style="width:30px; height:30px;">
<span style="vertical-align:50%; line-height:30px;">Didn't work.</span>
</div>
As others have suggested, try vertical-align on the image:
<div>
<img style="width:30px; height:30px; vertical-align:middle;">
<span>Didn't work.</span>
</div>
CSS isn't annoying. You just don't read the documentation. ;P
Basically I want the text to always be centered in the middle. With one image on either side that resize depending on how large the page is to take up all the white space. This is what I have so far.
<div style="text-align:center;">
<img style="float: left; width: 33%; margin:20px 0 0 0;" src="img/pulse.gif"/>
<img style="float: right; width: 33%; margin:20px 0 0 0;" src="img/pulseR.gif"/>
<h1 style="display:inline; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; width: 33%;">Safety</h1>
</div>
I would like to remove the width: 33% and for the images to resize to fit the space. Keep in mind it needs to be forced to stay on one line.
Thanks
You can use table and table-cell for display, or just classic html table.
There is example using table and table-cell for display (there is added extra divs for images and header) :
.container
{
width:100%;
display:table;
margin-top:20px;
}
.container div
{
display:table-cell;
text-align:center;
vertical-align:top;
}
.container img
{
width:100%;
height:100%;
}
<div class="container">
<div><img src="http://placehold.it/350x350"/></div>
<div><h1>Safety</h1></div>
<div><img src="http://placehold.it/350x350"/></div>
</div>
You can wrap images inside div containers like this:
<div style="text-align:center;">
<div class="left"> <img src="img/pulse.gif"/></div>
<h1>Safety</h1>
<div class="right">
<img src="src="img/pulseR.gif"/></div>
https://jsfiddle.net/uv85304v/
I have a div containing a title text and an image.
With the code below, the title is showing just above the image.
HTML code:
<div class="thumbnail">
<div class="text">
<center>Heading</center>
</div>
<div class="image">
<img src="sample.png">
</div>
</div>
I would like to align the title so that it will appear on the center (vertically and horizontally) of the image.
How can I achieve that using HTML and CSS?
You could remove the image tag and make the image be the background of the container div.
HTML
<div class="text">
Heading
</div>
CSS
.text {
background-image: url('sample.jpg');
text-align: center;
}
EDIT: I don't want to sell it as my perfect answer, but I realized I missed the vertical alignment, and as similar solutions have already been provided here in comments and answers, let me just provide you with a good source of info below. The point is that you could use vertical-align:middle if you used span or other inline element, but with div, you have to use other tricks like position:absolute and minus margins.
Source: http://phrogz.net/css/vertical-align/index.html
Your markup is mostly correct with the exception of using the center element and you do not need to wrap the img element in a div.
Here is some example markup:
<div class="thumbnail">
<h1>Heading</h1>
<img src="sample.png">
</div>
And its corresponding CSS:
.thumbnail {
position:relative;
}
.thumbnail h1 {
text-align:center;
position:absolute;top:50%;left:0;width:100%;
margin-top:-20px; /*make the negative top margin = half your h1 element height */
}
You could always use an element other than an h1 to hold your title. This just depends on your preference.
The following might help you.
HTML:
<div class="thumbnail">
<div class="text">
Heading
</div>
</div>
CSS:
.text {
background-image: url('http://cs616623.vk.me/v616623331/7991/vPKjXbo-c7o.jpg');
width: 320px;
height: 240px;
line-height: 240px;
vertical-align: middle;
text-align: center;
font-size: 48px;
}
Take into account that in this approach you would have to set manually the height and the width of your text element. Moreover, the height should be duplicated in the line-height in order for vertical alignment to work correctly.
You could test and change the code in the corresponding JSFiddle or just check the full-screen result.
I wouldn't recommend using lineheight to vertically align the text(as some answers suggest) solely because if the header is to long and spans over across two rows it would look terrible.
What I would do is to absolute position the heading and then use display: table-cell to vertical align it.
Note that to be able to use this solution you have to specify an height for the heading.
HTML
<div class="thumbnail">
<div class="text">
<h1>Heading</h1>
</div>
<div class="image">
<img src="http://placehold.it/350x250" />
</div>
</div>
CSS
.thumbnail{
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
}
.text{
position:absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
width: 350px;
}
.text h1{
height: 250px;
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
text-align: center;
width: 350px;
color: #fff;
}
JSfiddle here
I have seen the answer the answer to ''Vertical Align in a Div
" and followed the Adam's answer. My problem is to how to have both image and text side by side and the text being at the middle of the image.
My JSFiddle
My tried code
CSS
.outerContainer {
display: table;
width: 100%; /* width of parent */
height:200px;
overflow: hidden;
border:1px solid green;
}
.outerContainer .innerContainer {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
width: 100%;
margin: 0 auto;
}
HTML
<div class="outerContainer">
<div class="innerContainer">
<div >
<img src='http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/danleech/simple/512/facebook-icon.png' height=50px width=50px>
<p style='display:inline-block;font-size:10px;'>Some Text</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
My problem is to get that 'Some Text' side and at the middle of the image
**NOTE:**I know I shouldn't use inline-block here. But I don't know how to get it.
The img is supposed to have the vertical align property.
<img src='http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/danleech/simple/512/facebook-icon.png' height="50" width="50" style="vertical-align:middle;">
How to align the second div(display_bar) to the center
<div id="display" style="display:inline;font-size:150%;" > </div>
<div name="display_bar" id="display_bar"
style="margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;width:125em;text-align:center;visibility=visible;display:inline;">
<img class="view_prev" src="first.png">
<img class="view_prev" src="2.png" >
<img class="view_prev" src="3.png" >
<img class="view_prev" src="4.png" >
<img class="view_prev" src="5.png" >
</div>
Also the second div should be inline with the first div
Thanks.
Since it is display: inline, set text-align: center on its parent element and ask yourself if it should be a span instead of a div.
(NB: CSS uses :, not = and the alt attribute is mandatory for img elements)
Try this css:
#display_bar
{
margin:0 auto;
width:300px; /* or whatever width */
}
You can also center an element with display: inline-block or display: inline by using text-align: center on the parent element. This will center the text inside as well. I think this may be what you want, since you said you wanted to align everything to the center. Just put it all into the div.
For example:
<div class="wraper">
<div class="inwrap">
Lorem ipsum dolor text...
</div>
</div>
CSS:
.wraper {
}
.inwrap {
width: 50%;
margin: 0 auto;
}
OR:
.wraper {
text-align: center;
}
.inwrap {
display: inline-block; /*or inline*/
width: 50%;
}