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 want to set an image centre of div & just next it want to set a new image in the same line. I don't want to set it in next line.
I have tried below code it set first image in centre but not other image next to it. It put image in next line.
div {
margin: 0 auto;
overflow: auto;
background: #0cf;
}
<div>
<img src="../images/catchBug.png" alt="img1">
<img src="../images/signature.png" alt="img2">
</div>
The easiest way is to give the parent div text-align: center and position: absolute to the bottom img:
div {
/*position: relative; optional, depends on the image/divs size*/
margin: 0 auto;
overflow: auto;
background: #0cf;
text-align: center;
}
.abs {
position: absolute; /*taken out of the normal document flow; will overflow the parent div since its position is commented out, uncomment if you don't want that*/
}
/* addition */
img {vertical-align: bottom} /*removes bottom margin/whitespace*/
<div>
<img src="http://placehold.it/100x100" alt="img1">
<img src="http://placehold.it/125x125" alt="img2" class="abs">
</div>
As long as you don't want flexbox:
If you've got only two pictures in that row and there won't be more you can always hardcode values of width and margin like this (but remember not to use HTML tags in CSS, it's a bad practice):
img{
display: inline-block;
width: __WIDTH_THAT_IS_WIDE_ENOUGH__;
margin: 0 __WIDTH_THAT_FITS__;
}
I hope I got your question needs well. Try this
.main {
/*Introduce a fixed width so that your margin: 0 auto; can be put to work. This will center the div*/
width: 500px;
margin: 0 auto;
overflow: auto;
background-color: #0CF;
}
.main img {
/*Restrict to inline-block for images
because https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2402761/is-img-element-block-level-or-inline-level*/
display: inline-block;
/*Define a width for the images to keep them in the container 500px*/
width: 48%;
}
<div class="main">
<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/45/ZLSw0SXxThSrkXRIiCdT_DSC_0345.jpg?ixlib=rb-0.3.5&q=80&fm=jpg&crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&w=400&fit=max&ixid=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjE0NTg5fQ&s=2e1f776c8e5286b86dca14edbd302243' alt='' />
<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1511290156538-08919a92771d?ixlib=rb-0.3.5&q=80&fm=jpg&crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&w=400&fit=max&ixid=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjE0NTg5fQ&s=e4b4923f61050049c740fde4e35dd168' />
</div>
I am trying to make my site logo/banner fit the content box correctly.
Unfortunately, it is appearing at different widths on different computer resolutions and window sizes.
This is also happening with my banner ad within the content box.
CSS
#logo {
max-width: 100%;
height: auto;
width: auto;
}
HTML
<div id="logo">
<center>
<img src="logo.png" alt="Image of Traffic Monsoon">
</center>
</div>
The website is here.
To center an inline level element like <img> tag, you can set text-align:center; on the container, with your example:
#logo {
text-align: center;
}
<div id="logo">
<img src="logo.png" alt="Image of Traffic Monsoon">
</div>
In addition, remove <center>, it has been deprecated. And add following lines to make the image to shrink to fit automatically when its intrinsic width is larger than the container:
#logo img {
max-width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
<center>is deprecated so don't use it.
To fix your issue you need to target the img not the div
use margin:auto and display:block to center the image instead of the deprecated center
#logo img {
max-width: 100%;
height: auto;
width: auto;
margin:auto;
display:block
}
<div id="logo">
<a>
<img src="http://clubtrafficmonsoon.com/banner.gif" alt="Image of Traffic Monsoon">
</a>
</div>
If you want to apply this generally to all images in the site, just do this:
img {
max-width: 100%;
height: auto;
width: auto;
}
Wrap your whole page in a <main> element, or a wrapper class. Set your max-width on that element, and all subsequent elements can have width:100% set.
Please try this:
First of all wrap you entire page with a div named wrapper.
<div class="wrapper">your code here</div>
Then apply this css below:
.wrapper {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 1574px;
}
#logo {
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: center;
width: 1331px;
}
#logo img{
text-align: center;
width: 96%;
}
EDIT: The problem is solved, so thanks to everyone who helped!
Original post:
So I am trying to put three divs next to each other (until thus far this part has been successful) with the third and last div to like go to attach to the bottom of the divs, which I have no clue how to do this.
How can I put the third div to attach to the bottom of the middle div and stay within the container?
To show you, I made a quick example. Something like this:
The black colour in the image is the 'body'.
The grey is a container div I put the three other divs in.
Each other box represents a div with what I want them to do and how approx. I want them to be positioned of one another.
I hope this can be done only using html and css. I would appreciate any help.
So far I have this as html for the divs:
#nav,
#textarea,
#contactallpages {
vertical-align: top;
display: inline-block;
*display: inline;
}
#containerpage {
position: relative;
margin: auto;
padding-top: 5%;
padding-bottom: 5%;
background-color: black;
height: 100%;
width: 70%;
}
#centercontainer {
background-color: lightblue;
width: 75%;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 2%;
}
#nav {
float: left;
background: #aaaaaa;
height: 50%;
width: 15%;
padding: 1%;
}
#textarea {
display: inline-block;
background: #cccccc;
height: 70%;
width: 64%;
padding: 1%;
}
#contactallpages {
background: #bbbbbb;
position: absolute;
width: 15%;
padding: 1%;
bottom: 0;
}
<div id="containerpage">
<div id="centercontainer">
<div id="nav">
<ul>1
</ul>
<ul>2
</ul>
<ul>3
</ul>
</div>
<div id="textarea">
<header>
<h1>Welcome</h1>
</header>
<p>
Text text more text.
</p>
<p>
And more text.
</p>
</div>
<div id="contactallpages">
Random small textbox
<br>More small text.
</div>
</div>
</div>
The way you should lay this out is one container div and 3 children div's set to display: inline-block;
Using display: inline-block; will position all the div's next to each other and allows you to use the vertical-align property.
Now all you would need to do is set the proper vertical-alignment for each of the child div's. You can also set the height to the container div (#myPage) and that is the height that vertical-align will use to determine the positioning.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/vertical-align
#myPage div {
display: inline-block;
width: 100px;
}
#centerFold {
height: 200px;
vertical-align: middle;
background-color: yellow;
}
#navBar, #contact{
height: 100px;
}
#navBar {
vertical-align: top;
background-color: red;
}
#contact {
vertical-align: bottom;
background-color: blue;
}
<div id="myPage">
<div id="navBar">
</div>
<div id="centerFold">
</div>
<div id="contact">
</div>
</div>
Try out flexbox if you do not have too much to worry about backward compatibility. My time at the moment doesn't allow to elaborate, but the essential part would be
#centercontainer {display: flex}
#contactallpages {align-self: flex-end}
Be aware though that some prefixing will be necessary for older browsers and this is only the standards-compliant solution. It does everything you want and you can forget about floating. Adding a
#textarea {flex-grow: 1}
would even allow the center to grow not only in height but in width also.
I am stuck with a CSS problem and I am calling out for your expertise to help me!
I am trying to align text and image. Text and image should be vertically centered, left aligned and fit right next to each other. Both elements should be contained inside the wrapper div that can have varying width.
Below is code that I have so far:
<style>
.cell {
width: 150px;
height: 200px;
box-shadow: 0 0 0.5em #999;
white-space: nowrap;
}
.text_element {
height: 100%;
display: inline-block;
white-space: normal;
float: left;
}
.tooltip_element {
height: 100%;
display: inline-block;
}
</style>
<div class="cell">
<div class="text_element"> This is some random, random text.</div>
<div class="tooltip_element">
<img src="http://www.sainsburysbank.co.uk/library/default/images/life-insurance/icon-tooltip.png"/>
</div>
</div>
Above code produces next image when the wrapper content is 500px:
In the above image elements fit correctly next to each other, but aren't vertically aligned.
For width 200px, we get another problem however:
Here we get empty space between text and image, which shouldn't be there, as image should fit right next to the text. Furthermore image element is now outside the div.
Note that:
wrapper content can have varying width
solution should work in all browsers (no flex solutions)
no JS, only CSS can be used
Thank you very much for your help!
EDIT:
Text should be left aligned!
Ok, here it is:
.cell {
width: 210px;
height: 200px;
box-shadow: 0 0 0.5em #999;
white-space: nowrap;
padding-right: 30px;
}
.text_element {
display: inline-block;
white-space: normal;
float: left;
text-align: justify;
position: relative;
}
.tooltip_element {
position: absolute;
left: 100%;
top: 50%;
transform: translateY(-50%);
}
<div class="cell">
<div class="text_element">This is some random, random text. Moar random text. And moar, moar random text...
<div class="tooltip_element">
<img src="http://www.sainsburysbank.co.uk/library/default/images/life-insurance/icon-tooltip.png" />
</div>
</div>
</div>
Please note I included the tooltip element inside the text element. So I could vertically align them. If they must be siblings, I'd need to wrap them both in a container for vertical centering without flex-box.
If you prefer jsFiddle, to play around with cell width, here it is.
You can use css table https://jsfiddle.net/2Lzo9vfc/247/
CSS
.cell {
width: 100%;
height: 200px;
box-shadow: 0 0 0.5em #999;
word-break:break-all;
}
.text_element {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
.tooltip_element {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}