Why is it that when you add text into one of two centered <div>s that it shifts vertically?
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Two child divs with display:inline-block; centered by the parent div using text-align:center; are centered right next to each other nicely when there is nothing inside of them, but as soon as there is even one letter of text that div shifts vertically.
This happens only with text. How do you fix this?
EDIT: This happens with img elements too. Am I the only one that finds this odd?
You should specify vertical-align to either top, bottom, or middle.. This will control the alignment no matter the content.
EDIT: The reason why this happens is because vertical-align defaults to baseline, which attempts to align the baselines of the content. For example, two boxes with text, one with twice as much as the other, would be aligned in such a way as to have the last line of text in each box vertically aligned to each other.
Because your one box has no content, the baseline is set to the bottom of the box.
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I'm trying to vertically align some text in a div by setting the line height equal to the div height. This works just fine when there's just text in the div, and also when there's a small image in the div. But for some reason, when there's an image beyond a certain size in the div, it starts pushing the text downward. Check out this fiddle I made to demonstrate it.
In the fiddle are 4 divs that all have height: 40px and line-height:40px. The only difference is the the 2nd, 3rd & 4th divs also have images of size small, medium and large:
.small{height:20px;}
.medium{height:30px;}
.large{height:40px;}
So why are the third fourth images messing up the vertical alignment?
You need to add vertical-align: middle to your img tag, because it's not inline element, its inline-block element.
See updated Fiddle
Note that your vertical alignment method will not work when your text will be more than 1 row. Use for alignments flexbox, there are really good things :)
There a small space below every image. By default, an image is rendered inline (actually it's inline-block), like a letter. It sits on the same line that other letters sit on. There is space below that line for the descenders you find on letters like j, p and q.
You can adjust the vertical-align of the image to position it elsewhere. In this case vertical-align: middle; would be fine.
This answer describes the issue in details: Mystery white space underneath image tag
Vertical align is one of those things they never got quite right - try googling some articles around it.
My instant reaction here is to try vertical-align:middle on each of your images - but no guarantees - I've always had to experiment and you may get varying results from different browsers.
The only all-browser answer I've found is to create a 2-column table (maybe within the div box, but not necessarily) and put text in one cell (text is automatically vertically centred in table cells) then put the matching image in the next cell (which will automatically expand to the height of the image).
Aren't tables brilliant? (some people don't think so...)
HTML
<img id="btnLeft" src="img/btnLeft.png"/>
<img id="logo01" src="img/logo01.png"/>
CSS
#btnLeft{heigth:64px;}
#btnLeft:hover{height:74px;}
On mouseover btnLeft pushes #logo01 down by 10px.
I want #logo01 to stay in place.
Create a separate div for your image elements, float them left or right depending on your preference and then use use vertical-align: top on the containing div. Here is an example: http://jsfiddle.net/94zVg/.
The reason for this issue is because you have to image elements side by side which will be aligned to the bottom of their containing block. When one image is enlargened, it expands the containing block and the other element descends to stick to the bottom of it. Floating and aligning vertically solve this problem.
Give the first image a width as well, otherwise its width will expand proportionally and push the adjacent image down.
#btnLeft{height:64px;width:100px;}
#btnLeft:hover{height:74px;}
Here is a demonstration with explicit width: http://jsfiddle.net/XRKK4/
Here is a demonstration without explicit width: http://jsfiddle.net/XRKK4/1/
for reference here is a jsfiddle link:
http://jsfiddle.net/STmwz/4/
To start off with, there is only the top div. When the user clicks the edit button, I have some javascript to replace the top div with the bottom div. Problem is, when the replace happens, there is a slight twitch of sorts: everything jumps a couple of pixels.
I think the best way to fix this would be to have the top div vertically aligned. I have a height set for the top div that matches the height of the bottom div when it replaces the top one. So if both are aligned vertically, then no jump!
Problem is, vertical-align isn't working on the top div.
Any idea on what I could do?
I believe the elements that you want to vertically align must have "inline" or "table-cell" display.
Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/vertical-align
Here's an example of it working: http://jsfiddle.net/STmwz/19/
In a percentage-width container, a H2 is floated left and an image is floated right.
As the browser width is decreased, the image is pushed left towards the H2. When they meet, the logo is pushed down below the H2.
Example JSFiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/VgS8B/1/
How can I make it so that the text starts wrapping over multiple lines before the image drops down underneath it? Like a sort of CSS "force whitespace wrap"?
This is probably simple but my brain isn't working :(
Is it necessary that the heading be floated left? You could left align it, remove its float, and place it below the image within the HTML to get your desired effect.
try this:
http://jsfiddle.net/VgS8B/5/
I have a line of text and a small image, which I am trying to align vertically within the line. My goal is to align the vertical center of the image with the x-height (or half of the height of a capital letter) from the baseline of the text. I can't figure out any way to do this. The closest thing that I know of is:
vertical-align: middle;
This behavior as it is stated in the CSS 2.1 spec:
Align the vertical midpoint of the box with the baseline of the parent box plus half the x-height of the parent
If there were a way to remove the world "half" from that definition, I'd have what I want. How do I accomplish this?
The problem is, text sits on the text baseline while the image descends below that. And different browsers handle that differently.
My favorite solution is to display the image as a background-image, with its background-position set to left center ... you can season to taste.
Don't know if it's the "best" answer, but I would always set the "line-height" of my text to match the height of what I'm trying to center it in.
Here is the vertical align center.
http://www.templatespoint.com/blog/2010/10/div-vertical-align-middle/
or use image as background image
background:url(bg_image.jpg) no-repeat left center;