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
Need help getting two divs to align beside each other, one contains 2 pictures, the other a video.
HTML
<img src="example3.png" alt="CopeLogo" height="200" width="200" class="exlogo" >
</div>
</div>
CSS
#pics{
text-align: center;
background-color: #194b6f;
height: 200px;
width: 500px;
float: left;
border-radius: 5px;
margin-left: 50px;
border: 2px dashed black;}
#vid{
text-align: center;
background-color: #194b6f;
height: 490px;
width: 660px;
float: right;
border-radius: 5px;
border: 2px dashed black;
margin-right: 50px;}
just use float:left; for both, also you can use display:inline-block; for both as well if you don't want to use float.
I get your point but please do add your working codes to be more clear in your question.
You can actually do this:
HTML
<div class="header">
<div class="pic">
<img src="http://placehold.it/150x150" alt="">
<img src="http://placehold.it/150x150" alt="">
</div>
<div class="vid">
<img src="http://placehold.it/400x150" alt="">
</div>
</div>
CSS:
.header {
display: inline-block;
width: 100%;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
.vid {
float: right;
}
.pic {
float: left;
}
Working fiddle
Think of it this way: use DIVs to group each entity that you want to float:left.
You want to align the two images, so put each into a div, and float those divs left.
You want to align the box containing the two images with the box containing the video. Float each of those left.
When you use float:left (or right), the floated DIV is removed from the HTML "flow" and therefore has zero height. Therefore, the DIV containing a floated DIV (or other element) has zero height. Not good. To fix that, apply the clearfix hack to the parent div.
Here is a better explanation (although it uses a different method to clear the floats -- both methods work fine): Customising Insightly HTML contact form (aligned, spaced fields)
/* CSS: */
body{min-width:650px;min-height:650px;}
#pics{float:left;border-radius:5px;XXXmargin-left:50px;border:2px dashed black;}
#picLeft {float:left;height:200px;width:200px;}
#picRight{float:left;height:200px;width:200px;}
#vid{float:left;height:200px;width:200px;border-radius: 5px;border:2px dashed black;}
.clearfix:after{content:"";clear:both;display:block;}
<!-- HTML: -->
<div id="container" class="clearfix">
<div id="pics" class="clearfix">
<div id="picLeft">
<img src="http://placekitten.com/200/200" alt="MyLogo" height="200" width="200" class="mainlogo">
</div>
<div id="picRight">
<img src="http://placekitten.com/195/195" alt="CopeLogo" height="200" width="200" class="exlogo" >
</div>
</div>
<div id="vid">
<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E8xMcXmI9E" width="195"></iframe>
</div>
</div>
Additional References:
CSS-Tricks: Clearfix hack
Another example
Ahmed Alaa's answer also has a good tip: display:inline-block is also useful - +1
float both elements left and adjust there widths accordingly.
I am trying to align vertical some text in a div here:
HTML:
<div class="div1">
<div class="div11">
<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BrJSq87IMAAD3Zg.png" alt="" width="40px">
</div>
<div class="div12">
yo
</br>
yo
</div>
</div>
CSS:
.div1 {
height: 40px;
}
.div1 div {
display: inline-block;
}
.div12 {
padding-top: 5px;
}
JSFiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/4mVPG/1/
The height of my divs is fixed so all I want to do is set up a padding-top on the last div (.div12) to move the text down a bit. However when I add a padding-top all the box are brought down.
Why is this happening and how can I fix this? Thanks
When you use inline-block, each block acts as if it where text that gets alined (by default) on the baseline. If you increase the height of the second block, the baseline goes down, and the first block as well.
You can use vertical-align: top to change this.
Just replace CSS with this:
.div1 {
height: 40px;
}
.div1 > div {
float: left;
}
.div12 {
padding: 0 0 0 3px;
}
The div1 div selector also applies to all descendants so using > only applies to first one. Also if container is height fixed i think it's better to use float.
JSFidle
Hope it helps!
You can use ".div1 div {display: inline-block;vertical-align: top;}" and there is no need for .div12 { margin-top: 30px; } since you want both aligned top and no extra space on top of "Text div"
Also, just for a better practice, avoid using "<br>" tag, there are many "Block" tag like, <div>, <p> etc. and if there are list of "links" use "<ul><li>" and you can control the margins and spaces with CSS.
Here is the updated code :
HTML
<div class="div1">
<div class="div11">
<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BrJSq87IMAAD3Zg.png" alt="" width="40px"/>
</div>
<div class="div12">
<ul>
<li>yo
</li>
<li> yo
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
CSS
.div1 {
height: 40px;
}
.div1 div {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
}
.div12 ul,
.div12 li{
margin:0;
padding:0;
list-style:none;
}
Working Fiddle for the same: http://jsfiddle.net/PK3UU/
Hope this is helpful!!!
Is it what you want ? http://jsfiddle.net/4mVPG/4/ i cleaned up css a little bit
div {
height: 40px;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align:middle;
}
and for html
<div class="div11">
<img src="http://placekitten.com/40/40" alt="" width="40px" />
</div>
<div class="div12">
yo
<br />
yo
</div>
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 a website and i've centered some images using text-align.
Now in my main content div, i am trying to center an img and it's not working.
<div id="Content" style="width:100%;position:absolute;overflow:auto;top:66px;bottom:200px;">
<img src="myimg.png" style="text-align: center;" />
</div>
That's all there is to it. Why will all other images center, but not this one?
text-align: center needs to be applied to the parent element, in your case, the div:
<div id="Content" style="width:100%;position:absolute;overflow:auto;top:66px;bottom:200px;text-align: center;">
<img src="myimg.png" />
</div>
Though I strongly discourage the use of inline CSS, so if you have a stylesheet, move it there:
#Content {
width:100%;
position:absolute;
overflow:auto;
top:66px;
bottom:200px;
text-align: center;
}
Another way to do it is the automatically distribute the margins around the element, but this will only work for block-level elements:
#Content > img {
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
}
Instead of using the text-align on img tag, use it on div tag:
<div id="Content" style="width:100%;position:absolute;overflow:auto;top:66px;bottom:200px;text-align: center;">
<img src="myimg.png" />
</div>
Text align center should be your div characteristic rather than img.
<div id="Content" style=" text-align: center; width:100%;position:absolute;overflow:auto;top:66px;bottom:200px;">
You can use auto margins for this:
img {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
More reading: w3
or, if you know the width of the image:
img {
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -(half ot the image width)px
}
from here
Avoid using inline CSS, they are bad to do on websites because search engines take it negatively, always try to use a different stylesheet for the CSS. You can use the code as rink attendant gave.
And text-align can only be used in block containers