I am struggling centering content vertically. Here is a screenshot:
I need a float left as there will be more content on the side which you can't see but yeah how can I get this text to vertically be in the center? Also I am not sure if I do need a tag in the tag
.newsletter_text_section {
width: 40%;
float: left;
padding: 15px;
font-size:24px;
padding-right: 0 !important;
display: inline-block;
height: 100%;
vertical-align: middle;
}
.newsletter_text_section p {
font-size:24px !important;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
}
<!-- newsletter section -->
<div class="newsletter_section">
<div class="newsletter_text_section">
<p>Join Balance and get 20% off your first order</p>
</div>
<div class="newsletter_gif_section">
...
</div>
<div class="newsletter_input_section">
...
</div>
</div>
To solve this, the faster way is to set the same pixel for height and line-height of the element. Like this:
.box{
height : 10vh;
line-height: 10vh
}
Otherwise, you can also display: flex to layout your page, in flex scope, you can use align-item to align element vertically like this :
.box {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
}
For more detailed information, you can refer to here.
The next method is to adjust padding to your parent element since you are using the percent unit, but I don't recommend this way due to it exist side-effect sometimes.
The above content is what I think so now, hope it can help you.
Add This To The Style Of The Element:
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
Thanks,
Kamesta
I have the following HTML
<span class="or">
or
</span>
Styled like so:
.or {
height: 25px;
width: 25px;
border-radius: 50%;
background-color: red;
display: inline-flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
}
This results in the following element.
Notice how the text itself is not quite vertically centered (even though the highlight of the text is centered). I've tried changing the line-height attribute and vertical-align: middle; among others but nothing seems to to do anything. How can I center the text in this div?
This question already has answers here:
How can I center text (horizontally and vertically) inside a div block?
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I've created a div in HTML:
.Div {
border: 1px solid red;
margin: 1px;
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
font-size: 20px;
height: 80px;
}
...
<div class="Div">
Just testing my Div.
</div>
...
Output:
I want the text to be in the middle of this rectangular, vertically and horizontally. How should I make it happen?
To be mentioned, I didn't use this div inside the main body, it's used inside another div; But in that i also have text-align: center;. I don't know if it's important; But i can provide more details about this code if needed.
P.S: I'm very new to css and html. Please accept my apologies if this code doesn't meet some standards.
There are several ways to do this. Since you, yourself tried to use vertical-align in the first place, so vertical-align will only work with display: table-cell;. In order to achieve it, you should set your div, display to table-cell and then you should also define a specific width for your div (I just went with 100vw to fill the available viewport).
So your final code should be something like this:
.Div {
border: 1px solid red;
margin: 1px;
text-align: center;
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
font-size: 20px;
height: 80px;
width: 100vw;
}
<div class="Div">
Just testing my Div.
</div>
But if you want some generic approach for this you should use flexbox instead. In order to use flexbox, you should define three specific properties to meet your requirement.
display: flex;. This will indicate your div as flex items and then their children should follow flex rules.
align-items: center;. This will indicate all of your items should align in the middle of your div horizontally.
justify-content: center;. This will indicate all of your items should align in the middle of your div vertically.
.Div {
border: 1px solid red;
margin: 1px;
text-align: center;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
font-size: 20px;
height: 80px;
}
<div class="Div">
Just testing my Div.
</div>
You may use display: flex;, justify-content: center; and align-items: center in your class Div
You may go http://howtocenterincss.com/, to auto-generate the code that centre text, image or div.
.Div {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
border: 1px solid red;
margin: 1px;
/* text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle; */
font-size: 20px;
height: 80px;
}
<div class="Div">
Just testing my Div.
</div>
I'm trying to vertically center a span or div element within another div element. However when I put vertical-align: middle, nothing happens. I've tried changing the display properties of both elements, and nothing seems to work.
This is what I'm currently doing in my webpage:
.main {
height: 72px;
vertical-align: middle;
border: 1px solid black;
padding: 2px;
}
.inner {
vertical-align: middle;
border: 1px solid red;
}
.second {
border: 1px solid blue;
}
<div class="main">
<div class="inner">
This box should be centered in the larger box
<div class="second">Another box in here</div>
</div>
</div>
Here is a jsfiddle of the implementation showing that it doesn't work: http://jsfiddle.net/gZXWC/
Using CSS3:
<div class="outer">
<div class="inner"/>
</div>
Css:
.outer {
display : flex;
align-items : center;
}
use "justify-content: center;" to align elements horizontally
Note: This might not work in old IE's
This seems to be the best way - some time has passed since my original post and this is what should be done now:
.main {
display: table;
/* optional css start */
height: 90px;
width: 90px;
/* optional css end */
}
.inner {
border: 1px solid #000000;
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
<div class="main">
<div class="inner"> This </div>
</div>
Try this, works for me very well:
/* Internet Explorer 10 */
display:-ms-flexbox;
-ms-flex-pack:center;
-ms-flex-align:center;
/* Firefox */
display:-moz-box;
-moz-box-pack:center;
-moz-box-align:center;
/* Safari, Opera, and Chrome */
display:-webkit-box;
-webkit-box-pack:center;
-webkit-box-align:center;
/* W3C */
display:box;
box-pack:center;
box-align:center;
Setting the line-height to the same height as it's containing div will align content in the middle vertically;
DEMO http://jsfiddle.net/kevinPHPkevin/gZXWC/7/
.inner {
line-height:72px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
}
In case you cannot rely on flexbox... Place .child into .parent's center. Works when pixel sizes are unknown (in other words, always) and no problems with IE9+ too.
.parent { position: relative; }
.child {
position: absolute;
top : 50%;
left: 50%;
-ms-transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
transform : translate(-50%, -50%);
}
<div class="parent" style="background:lightyellow; padding:6em">
<div class="child" style="background:gold; padding:1em">—</div>
</div>
You should put vertical-align: middle on the inner element, not the outer element. Set the line-height property on the outer element to match the height of the outer element. Then set display: inline-block and line-height: normal on the inner element. By doing this, the text on the inner element will wrap with a normal line-height. Works in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and IE 8+
.main {
height: 72px;
line-height:72px;
border: 1px solid black;
}
.inner {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
line-height: normal;
}
<div class="main">
<div class="inner">Vertically centered text</div>
</div>
Fiddle
I used this to align everything in the center of the wrapper div in case it helps anyone - I found it simplest:
div.wrapper {
/* --- This works --- */
display: flex;
/* Align Vertically */
align-items: center;
/* Align Horizontally */
justify-content: center;
/* --- ---------- ----- */
width: 100%;
height:100px;
background-color: blue;
}
div.inner {
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
background-color: orange;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="inner">
</div>
</div>
This is a modern approach and it utilizes the CSS Flexbox functionality.
You can now vertically align the content within your parent container by just adding these styles to the .main container
.main {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center; // To center align it horizontally as well
}
You can also use CSS Grids ( a two-dimensional grid-based layout system).
.main {
display: grid;
justify-content: center;
align-content: center;
}
Below is a Shorthand approach but browser support is still low - https://caniuse.com/?search=place-items.
.main {
display: grid; // flex - works for both
place-items: center;
}
And you are good to go!
HTML
<div id="myparent">
<div id="mychild">Test Content here</div>
</div>
CSS
#myparent {
display: table;
}
#mychild {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
We set the parent div to display as a table and the child div to display as a table-cell. We can then use vertical-align on the child div and set its value to middle. Anything inside this child div will be vertically centered.
Here you have an example of two ways of doing a vertical alignment. I use them and they work pretty well. One is using absolute positioning and the other using flexbox.
Vertical Align Example
Using flexbox, you can align an element by itself inside another element with display: flex; using align-self. If you need to align it also horizontally, you can use align-items and justify-content in the container.
If you don't want to use flexbox, you can use the position property. If you make the container relative and the content absolute, the content will be able to move freely inside the container. So if you use top: 0; and left: 0; in the content, it will be positioned at the top left corner of the container.
Then, to align it, you just need to change the top and left references to 50%. This will position the content at the container center from the top left corner of the content.
So you need to correct this translating the content half its size to the left and top.
here is a great article of how to vetical align..
I like the float way.
http://www.vanseodesign.com/css/vertical-centering/
The HTML:
<div id="main">
<div id="floater"></div>
<div id="inner">Content here</div>
</div>
And the corresponding style:
#main {
height: 250px;
}
#floater {
float: left;
height: 50%;
width: 100%;
margin-bottom: -50px;
}
#inner {
clear: both;
height: 100px;
}
It's simple. Just add display:table-cell in your main class.
.main {
height: 72px;
vertical-align: middle;
display:table-cell;
border: 1px solid #000000;
}
Check out this jsfiddle!
Here is the latest simplest solution - no need to change anything, just add three lines of CSS rules to your container of the div where you wish to center at. I love Flex Box #LoveFlexBox
.main {
/* I changed height to 200px to make it easy to see the alignment. */
height: 200px;
vertical-align: middle;
border: 1px solid #000000;
padding: 2px;
/* Just add the following three rules to the container of which you want to center at. */
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
justify-content: center;
/* This is true vertical center, no math needed. */
}
.inner {
border: 1px solid #000000;
}
.second {
border: 1px solid #000000;
}
<div class="main">
<div class="inner">This box should be centered in the larger box
<div class="second">Another box in here</div>
</div>
<div class="inner">This box should be centered in the larger box
<div class="second">Another box in here</div>
</div>
</div>
Bonus
the justify-content value can be set to the following few options:
flex-start, which will align the child div to where the flex flow starts in its parent container. In this case, it will stay on top.
center, which will align the child div to the center of its parent container. This is really neat, because you don't need to add an additional div to wrap around all children to put the wrapper in a parent container to center the children. Because of that, this is the true vertical center (in the column flex-direction. similarly, if you change the flow-direction to row, it will become horizontally centered.
flex-end, which will align the child div to where the flex flow ends in its parent container. In this case, it will move to bottom.
space-between, which will spread all children from the beginning of the flow to the end of the flow. If the demo, I added another child div, to show they are spread out.
space-around, similar to space-between, but with half of the space in the beginning and end of the flow.
Since vertical-align works as expected on a td, you could put a single celled table in the div to align its content.
<div>
<table style="width: 100%; height: 100%;"><tr><td style="vertical-align: middle; text-align: center">
Aligned content here...
</td></tr></table>
</div>
Clunky, but works as far as I can tell. It might not have the drawbacks of the other workarounds.
Just put the content inside a table with height 100%, and set the height for the main div
<div style="height:80px;border: 1px solid #000000;">
<table style="height:100%">
<tr><td style="vertical-align: middle;">
This paragraph should be centered in the larger box
</td></tr>
</table>
</div>
To vertically center a span or div element within another div, add position relative to parent div and position absolute to the child div.Now the child div can be positioned anywhere inside the div.Example below centers both horizontally and vertically.
<div class="parent">
<div class="child">Vertically and horizontally centered child div</div>
</div>
css:
.parent{
position: relative;
}
.child{
position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
margin: auto;
}
set below CSS
/*Parent*/
display: table;
/*immediate child*/
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
~Rahul Daksh
THIS IS THE ANSWER:
vertical-align aligns elements relative to the dimensions of the line the element appears in.
reference: https://christopheraue.net/design/why-vertical-align-is-not-working
The question was "WHY?".
The answer: vertical-align only works in certain conditions
in the "display: table-cell;"
I am trying to make a link which has a height and a width of 200px.
The text of the link shall be centered vertically and horizontally.
This is my CSS so far:
a:link.Kachel {
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
margin: 0 auto;
display: block;
text-align: center;
background: #383838;
display: -webkit-box;
display: -moz-box;
display: box;
-webkit-box-align: center;
-moz-box-align: center;
box-align: center;
}
and this the HTML-code:
<tr>
<td>
<a class="Kachel" href="#">Test</a>
</td>
</tr>
The text is horizontally centered but not vertically.
Any idea how to get the text centered both horizontally and virtically?
remove everything else, and just replace height with line-height
a:link.Kachel{
width: 200px;
line-height: 200px;
display: block;
text-align: center;
background: #383838;
}
jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/6jSFY/
In CSS3, you can achieve this with a flexbox without any extra elements.
.link {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
}
If the text is only on one line, you can use line-height:200px; - where the 200px is the same as the height value.
If the text is on multiple lines and will always be on the same number of multiple lines, you can use padding combined with line-height. Example with 2 lines:
line-height:20px;
padding-top:80px;
This way the two lines will take up a total of 40px and the padding top puts them perfectly in the middle. Note that you'd need to adjust the height accordingly.
JSFiddle example.
If there is more than one link and it will have any number of lines, you will need some accompanying JavaScript to fix the padding on each.
If the number of rows (or the inner element height) is not known, there is another trick using display: table and vertical-align:
.wrapper{
display: table;
}
.link{
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
Example
Full article with details
Small point to add. If you remove the underline (text-decoration: none;) then the text will not be perfectly centred vertically. Links leave space for the underline. To my knowledge there is no way to override this except to add little extra top padding.
Maybe using padding? Like:
padding-top: 50%;
In CSS3, you can try to use line-break with the justify text.
text-align: justify;
line-break: anywhere;