I am trying to display an image next to two lines of text, which are centered. I have attached an example, and you will see from it that the image is to the left of the text, whereas I am trying to center the image to be on the left side of the text, and have a perfectly centered image/text.
CSS:
.center-class{
text-align:center;
}
.righty img{
max-width: 100px;
float:left;
}
.vid-open{
}
HMTL:
<section class="">
<div class="row pull-down">
<div class="center-class">
<div class="righty">
<img src="http://www.psdgraphics.com/file/white-egg.jpg" >
<h2>This is a header.</h2>
<h5 class="vid-open">some text some text some text<span class="icon-right-left-01-011" ></span></h5>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
SEE DEMO
Simply wrap the text in a div and display it inline-block:
.center-class {
text-align: center;
}
.righty > * {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
}
.righty img {
max-width: 100px;
}
<section class="power-of-egg">
<div class="row pull-down">
<div class="center-class">
<div class="righty">
<img src="http://www.psdgraphics.com/file/white-egg.jpg">
<div class="con">
<h2>This is an egg.</h2>
<h5 class="vid-open">eggs are very nutritious<span class="icon-right-left-01-011" ></span></h5>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
Updated Codepen
Well, this will center the entire block:
.center-class{
text-align:center;
}
.righty img{
max-width: 100px;
float:left;
}
.vid-open{
}
.righty {
width: 300px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
The problem is that you've got your image inside of a div and div is a block-level element, which means it will expand to be the full width of its parent element.
If you take the image out of the div and make the div that contains the text have:
display:inline-block;
That div will shrink down to be only as wide as its content.
Here's your updated code: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/LNNJRQ
To horizontally center an element you can use display: block; and margin: auto;. There may be a better approach but this is the css I used to have the image in the center and the text to the right of it:
.righty > .con {
position: absolute;
top:0;
left: 55%;
}
.righty img {
display: block;
vertical-align: middle;
margin: auto;
max-width: 100px;
}
Note: the position of the class .con will vary based on screen size.
Here is the updated codepen.
I have this markup:
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="container">
<div class="block"></div>
<div class="block"></div>
</div>
</div>
and this CSS:
#wrapper {
width: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
}
#container {
width: 200%;
}
.block {
width: 50%;
float: left;
}
Basically all I want to do is, have 2 fullwidth divs floating next to each other, but when I put some content in them I get container centered and pieces of both divs showing, like this: http://prntscr.com/8lr4l6
What am I doing wrong?
There is no need to set the width of the wrapper and of the container. It is always 100%, if nothing else is set. Just set a width of 50% to every block and float them left.
#wrapper {
overflow: hidden;
}
.block {
float: left;
width: 50%;
}
Example
would something like this work for you: http://jsfiddle.net/swm53ran/338/
you can see the div to by commenting out overflow: hidden
<div class="container">
<div class="block block1">
This is content for div 1 This is content for div 1 This is content for div 1
</div>
<div class="block block2">
This is content for div 2 This is content for div 2 This is content for div 2
</div>
</div>
body {
overflow: hidden;
}
.container {
width: 200%;
padding: 0px;
}
.block {
display: inline-block;
width: 50%;
float: left;
outline: 1px solid gray;
}
Boy, am I a fool!?
In my case answer was pretty simple. I had left autofocus attribute on my input which were on the off screen div, and of course it automatically scrolled to that div.
Thanks everyone for answers though. :)
Here's my html
<div class="container">
<div class="box">
<div class="float">
<img src='http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/03/9b/2f/db/miami-beach.jpg' />
</div>
<div class="float float_txt">
text here!
<p class"a_p">a</p>
<p class"b_p">b</p>
<p class"c_p">c</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
and css
.container{width:400px}
.box{display:inline-block}
.float{width:50%; float:left}
.float img{width: 100%; height:auto;}
.float_txt{background:red}
http://jsfiddle.net/MdtR8/1/
.container has a dynamic width (responsive design) and image will auto-resize itself.
I need to have .float_txt at same height as image, but I need a REAL height because I must divide a b c in percentage. Example:
.a_p, .b_p{height: 20%}
.c_p{height:60%}
How I can to this? only css no js :S
Why don't you solve it with JQuery. Here is the example of JQuery to calculate the height of .float img and add it to float_txt height.
$(".float_txt").css({
'height': $('.float img').height()
});
It's just one solution using JQuery. It's absolutely easier than using only css.
Jsfiddle
Here's one of the approaches.
I don't consider it to be the answer neither an elegant solution but this is one of the workarounds which actually meets the most important condition - it works (with some restrictions).
Here's the fiddle
First, we must assume that everything inside the .float_txt will be wrapped within those three paragraphs - they're meant to be 20%, 20% and 60% which is 100% all together so there's no more space for any other elements. Next, we wrap all three paragraphs with a div and put a copy of the image next to this div. We'll add the id="speculate" to the image.
The whole HTML will look like that:
<div class="container">
<div class="box">
<div class="float">
<img src='http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/03/9b/2f/db/miami-beach.jpg' />
</div><div class="float float_txt">
<img id='speculate' src='http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/03/9b/2f/db/miami-beach.jpg' />
<div class='content'>
<p class="a-p">a</p>
<p class="b-p">b</p>
<p class="c-p">c</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
We'll use the #speculate image to set the height of the .float_txt div. The image will have visibility: hidden which makes it invisible but still occupying_ the space in its container. The .content div will be positioned absolutely and spread to the whole space of the .float_txt with top:0; right:0; bottom:0; left:0.
The paragraphs will be also positoned absolutely and placed with the top property. The disadvantage here is the fact that we must know the percentage heights of the preceding paragraphs, e.g. to position the second paragraph we must set top: 20% because the first paragraph has height: 20%. I hope it's clear.
The whole CSS will look like this:
.box {
display: inline-block;
}
.float {
display: inline-block;
width:50%;
}
.float img {
width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
.float_txt {
background: red;
position: relative;
}
#speculate {
width: 100%;
visibility: hidden;
display: block;
}
.content {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
}
.content p {
margin: 0;
position: absolute;
}
.content .static {
position: static;
}
.a-p {
height: calc(20% + 20px);
top: 20px;
}
.b-p {
height: 20%;
top: calc(20% + 20px);
}
.c-p {
height: 60%;
top: calc(40% + 20px);
}
I have problem when I align multiple divs with different height to bottom. I want all divs are at bottom (even "closed chat" from example). One solution is using
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
right XXpx;
but is there any other way to do it? I don't want to set right value with javascript.
Here is my example - http://jsfiddle.net/T3Evb/
#chatbar {
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
right: 0;
width: 100%;
}
.chat {
display: inline-block;
background-color: green;
width: 200px;
text-align: center;
margin-right: 10px;
}
.chat.open {
display: inline-block;
height: 130px;
vertical-align: bottom;
}
<div id="chatbar">
<div class="chat open">
Chat window
</div>
<div class="chat">
Closed chat window
</div>
</div>
I've removed the float css property, and changed the display behaviour of those divs to be inline-block.
At this point, the vertical-align css property permits to align the element as I please.
it's easy:
make one html tag as container and one more for absolute, like this:
<div class="chat">
<div class="chat_contain">
<div class="chat_window"></div>
</div>
<div class="chat_contain">
<div class="chat_window"></div>
</div>
</div>
and the css:
.chat{
width:auto;
display:inline-block;
position:fixed;
bottom:0px;
right:0px;
}
.chat_contain{
position:relative;
float:right;
}
.chat_window{
position:absolute:
bottom:0px;
left:0px;
}
remember my code is for set up the position not for all stylesheets.
edit it by yourself ad good luck
I have a problem when I try to center the div block "products" because I don't know in advance the div width. Anybody have a solution?
Update: The problem I have is I don't know how many products I'll display, I can have 1, 2 or 3 products, I can center them if it was a fixed number as I'd know the width of the parent div, I just don't know how to do it when the content is dynamic.
.product_container {
text-align: center;
height: 150px;
}
.products {
height: 140px;
text-align: center;
margin: 0 auto;
clear: ccc both;
}
.price {
margin: 6px 2px;
width: 137px;
color: #666;
font-size: 14pt;
font-style: normal;
border: 1px solid #CCC;
background-color: #EFEFEF;
}
<div class="product_container">
<div class="products" id="products">
<div id="product_15">
<img src="/images/ecommerce/card_default.png">
<div class="price">R$ 0,01</div>
</div>
<div id="product_15">
<img src="/images/ecommerce/card_default.png">
<div class="price">R$ 0,01</div>
</div>
<div id="product_15">
<img src="/images/ecommerce/card_default.png">
<div class="price">R$ 0,01</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Update 27 Feb 2015: My original answer keeps getting voted up, but now I normally use #bobince's approach instead.
.child { /* This is the item to center... */
display: inline-block;
}
.parent { /* ...and this is its parent container. */
text-align: center;
}
My original post for historical purposes:
You might want to try this approach.
<div class="product_container">
<div class="outer-center">
<div class="product inner-center">
</div>
</div>
<div class="clear"/>
</div>
Here's the matching style:
.outer-center {
float: right;
right: 50%;
position: relative;
}
.inner-center {
float: right;
right: -50%;
position: relative;
}
.clear {
clear: both;
}
JSFiddle
The idea here is that you contain the content you want to center in two divs, an outer one and an inner one. You float both divs so that their widths automatically shrink to fit your content. Next, you relatively position the outer div with it's right edge in the center of the container. Lastly, you relatively position the inner div the opposite direction by half of its own width (actually the outer div's width, but they are the same). Ultimately that centers the content in whatever container it's in.
You may need that empty div at the end if you depend on your "product" content to size the height for the "product_container".
An element with ‘display: block’ (as div is by default) has a width determined by the width of its container. You can't make a block's width dependent on the width of its contents (shrink-to-fit).
(Except for blocks that are ‘float: left/right’ in CSS 2.1, but that's no use for centering.)
You could set the ‘display’ property to ‘inline-block’ to turn a block into a shrink-to-fit object that can be controlled by its parent's text-align property, but browser support is spotty. You can mostly get away with it by using hacks (eg. see -moz-inline-stack) if you want to go that way.
The other way to go is tables. This can be necessary when you have columns whose width really can't be known in advance. I can't really tell what you're trying to do from the example code — there's nothing obvious in there that would need a shrink-to-fit block — but a list of products could possibly be considered tabular.
[PS. never use ‘pt’ for font sizes on the web. ‘px’ is more reliable if you really need fixed size text, otherwise relative units like ‘%’ are better. And “clear: ccc both” — a typo?]
.center{
text-align:center;
}
.center > div{ /* N.B. child combinators don't work in IE6 or less */
display:inline-block;
}
JSFiddle
Most browsers support the display: table; CSS rule. This is a good trick to center a div in a container without adding extra HTML nor applying constraining styles to the container (like text-align: center; which would center all other inline content in the container), while keeping dynamic width for the contained div:
HTML:
<div class="container">
<div class="centered">This content is centered</div>
</div>
CSS:
.centered { display: table; margin: 0 auto; }
.container {
background-color: green;
}
.centered {
display: table;
margin: 0 auto;
background-color: red;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="centered">This content is centered</div>
</div>
Update (2015-03-09):
The proper way to do this today is actually to use flexbox rules. Browser support is a little bit more restricted (CSS table support vs flexbox support) but this method also allows many other things, and is a dedicated CSS rule for this type of behavior:
HTML:
<div class="container">
<div class="centered">This content is centered</div>
</div>
CSS:
.container {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column; /* put this if you want to stack elements vertically */
}
.centered { margin: 0 auto; }
.container {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column; /* put this if you want to stack elements vertically */
background-color: green;
}
.centered {
margin: 0 auto;
background-color: red;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="centered">This content is centered</div>
</div>
six ways to skin that cat:
Button one: anything of type display: block will assume the full parents width. (unless combined with float or a display: flex parent). True. Bad example.
Button 2: going for display: inline-block will lead to automatic (rather than full) width. You can then center using text-align: center on the wrapping block. Probably the easiest, and most widely compatible, even with ‘vintage’ browsers...
.wrapTwo
text-align: center;
.two
display: inline-block; // instantly shrinks width
Button 3:
No need to put anything on the wrap. So perhaps this is the most elegant solution. Also works vertically. (Browser support for transtlate is good enough (≥IE9) these days...).
position: relative;
display: inline-block; // instantly shrinks width
left: 50%;
transform: translateX(-50%);
Btw: Also a great way for vertically centering blocks of unknown height (in connection with absolute positioning).
Button 4:
Absolute positioning. Just make sure to reserve enough height in the wrapper, since noone else will (neither clearfix nor implicit...)
.four
position absolute
top 0
left 50%
transform translateX(-50%)
.wrapFour
position relative // otherwise, absolute positioning will be relative to page!
height 50px // ensure height
background lightgreen // just a marker
Button 5:
float (which brings also block-level elements to dynamic width) and a relative shift. Although I've never seen this in the wild. Perhaps there are disadvantages...
.wrapFive
&:after // aka 'clearfix'
content ''
display table
clear both
.five
float left
position relative
left 50%
transform translateX(-50%)
Update: Button 6:
And nowadays, you could also use flex-box. Note, that styles apply to the wrapper of the centered object.
.wrapSix
display: flex
justify-content: center
→ full source code (stylus syntax)
I found a more elegant solution, combining "inline-block" to avoid using float and the hacky clear:both. It still requires nested divs tho, which isnt very semantic but it just works...
div.outer{
display:inline-block;
position:relative;
left:50%;
}
div.inner{
position:relative;
left:-50%;
}
Hope it helps!
<div class="outer">
<div class="target">
<div class="filler">
</div>
</div>
</div>
.outer{
width:100%;
height: 100px;
}
.target{
position: absolute;
width: auto;
height: 100px;
left: 50%;
transform: translateX(-50%);
}
.filler{
position:relative;
width:150px;
height:20px;
}
If the target element is absolutely positioned, you can center it by moving it 50% in one direction (left: 50%) and then transforming it 50% in the opposition direction (transform:translateX(-50%)). This works without defining the target element's width (or with width:auto). The parent element's position can be static, absolute, relative, or fixed.
By default, div elements are displayed as block elements, so they have 100% width, making centering them meaningless. As suggested by Arief, you must specify a width and you can then use auto when specifying margin in order to center a div.
Alternatively, you could also force display: inline, but then you'd have something that pretty much behaves like a span instead of a div, so that doesn't make a lot of sense.
This will center an element such as an Ordered List, or Unordered List, or any element.
Just wrap it with a Div with the class of outerElement and give the inner element the class of innerElement.
The outerelement class accounts for IE, old Mozilla, and most newer browsers.
.outerElement {
display: -moz-inline-stack;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
zoom: 1;
position: relative;
left: 50%;
}
.innerElement {
position: relative;
left: -50%;
}
use css3 flexbox with justify-content:center;
<div class="row">
<div class="col" style="background:red;">content1</div>
<div class="col" style="">content2</div>
</div>
.row {
display: flex; /* equal height of the children */
height:100px;
border:1px solid red;
width: 400px;
justify-content:center;
}
Slight variation on Mike M. Lin's answer
If you add overflow: auto; ( or hidden ) to div.product_container, then you don't need div.clear.
This is derived from this article -> http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html
Here is modified HTML:
<div class="product_container">
<div class="outer-center">
<div class="product inner-center">
</div>
</div>
</div>
And here is modified CSS:
.product_container {
overflow: auto;
/* width property only required if you want to support IE6 */
width: 100%;
}
.outer-center {
float: right;
right: 50%;
position: relative;
}
.inner-center {
float: right;
right: -50%;
position: relative;
}
The reason, why it's better without div.clear (apart that it feels wrong to have an empty element) is Firefox'es overzealous margin assignment.
If, for example, you have this html:
<div class="product_container">
<div class="outer-center">
<div class="product inner-center">
</div>
</div>
<div style="clear: both;"></div>
</div>
<p style="margin-top: 11px;">Some text</p>
then, in Firefox (8.0 at the point of writing), you will see 11px margin before product_container. What's worse, is that you will get a vertical scroll bar for the whole page, even if the content fits nicely into the screen dimensions.
Try this new css and markup
Here is modified HTML:
<div class="product_container">
<div class="products" id="products">
<div id="product_15" class="products_box">
<img src="/images/ecommerce/card_default.png">
<div class="price">R$ 0,01</div>
</div>
<div id="product_15" class="products_box">
<img src="/images/ecommerce/card_default.png">
<div class="price">R$ 0,01</div>
</div>
<div id="product_15" class="products_box">
<img src="/images/ecommerce/card_default.png">
<div class="price">R$ 0,01</div>
</div>
</div>
And here is modified CSS:
<pre>
.product_container
{
text-align: center;
height: 150px;
}
.products {
left: 50%;
height:35px;
float:left;
position: relative;
margin: 0 auto;
width:auto;
}
.products .products_box
{
width:auto;
height:auto;
float:left;
right: 50%;
position: relative;
}
.price {
margin: 6px 2px;
width: 137px;
color: #666;
font-size: 14pt;
font-style: normal;
border: 1px solid #CCC;
background-color: #EFEFEF;
}
<div class="product_container">
<div class="outer-center">
<div class="product inner-center">
</div>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
.outer-center
{
float: right;
right: 50%;
position: relative;
}
.inner-center
{
float: right;
right: -50%;
position: relative;
}
.clear
{
clear: both;
}
.product_container
{
overflow:hidden;
}
If you dont provide "overflow:hidden" for ".product_container" the "outer-center" div will overlap other nearby contents to the right of it. Any links or buttons to the right of "outer-center" wont work. Try background color for "outer-center" to understand the need of "overflow :hidden"
I found interesting solution, I was making slider and had to center slide controls and I did this and works fine. You can also add relative position to parent and move child position vertical. Take a look http://jsfiddle.net/bergb/6DvJz/
CSS:
#parent{
width:600px;
height:400px;
background:#ffcc00;
text-align:center;
}
#child{
display:inline-block;
margin:0 auto;
background:#fff;
}
HTML:
<div id="parent">
<div id="child">voila</div>
</div>
Do display:table; and set margin to auto
Important bit of code:
.relatedProducts {
display: table;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
No matter how many elements you got now it will auto align in center
Example in code snippet:
.relatedProducts {
display: table;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
a {
text-decoration:none;
}
<div class="row relatedProducts">
<div class="homeContentTitle" style="margin: 100px auto 35px; width: 250px">Similar Products</div>
test1
test2
test3
</div>
I'm afraid the only way to do this without explicitly specifying the width is to use (gasp) tables.
Crappy fix, but it does work...
CSS:
#mainContent {
position:absolute;
width:600px;
background:#FFFF99;
}
#sidebar {
float:left;
margin-left:610px;
max-width:300;
background:#FFCCCC;
}
#sidebar{
text-align:center;
}
HTML:
<center>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td>
<div id="mainContent">
1<br/>
<br/>
123<br/>
123<br/>
123<br/>
</div><div id="sidebar"><br/>
</div></td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
Simple fix that works in old browsers (but does use tables, and requires a height to be set):
<div style="width:100%;height:40px;position:absolute;top:50%;margin-top:-20px;">
<table style="width:100%"><tr><td align="center">
In the middle
</td></tr></table>
</div>
<style type="text/css">
.container_box{
text-align:center
}
.content{
padding:10px;
background:#ff0000;
color:#ffffff;
}
use span istead of the inner divs
<div class="container_box">
<span class="content">Hello</span>
</div>
I know this question is old, but I'm taking a crack at it. Very similar to bobince's answer but with working code example.
Make each product an inline-block. Center the contents of the container. Done.
http://jsfiddle.net/rgbk/6Z2Re/
<style>
.products{
text-align:center;
}
.product{
display:inline-block;
text-align:left;
background-image: url('http://www.color.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/New_Product.jpg');
background-size:25px;
padding-left:25px;
background-position:0 50%;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
.price {
margin: 6px 2px;
width: 137px;
color: #666;
font-size: 14pt;
font-style: normal;
border: 1px solid #CCC;
background-color: #EFEFEF;
}
</style>
<div class="products">
<div class="product">
<div class="price">R$ 0,01</div>
</div>
<div class="product">
<div class="price">R$ 0,01</div>
</div>
<div class="product">
<div class="price">R$ 0,01</div>
</div>
<div class="product">
<div class="price">R$ 0,01</div>
</div>
<div class="product">
<div class="price">R$ 0,01</div>
</div>
<div class="product">
<div class="price">R$ 0,01</div>
</div>
</div>
See also: Center inline-blocks with dynamic width in CSS
This is one way to center anything within a div not know the inner width of the elements.
#product_15{
position: relative;
margin: 0 auto;
display: table;
}
.price, img{
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}
my solution was:
.parent {
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
}
.product {
width: 240px;
margin-left: auto;
height: 127px;
margin-right: auto;
}
add this css to your product_container class
margin: 0px auto;
padding: 0px;
border:0;
width: 700px;