I'm a beginner at CSS and HTML so I'm sure this is a mess. But what I'm trying to do is center 3 images side by side in a horizontal center in CSS. I've tried different solutions have gotten them to align properly but they still stay stuck to the left of the page or will stack on top of each other (and sometimes overlap).
<div id="imagesMain">
<img src="IMG_20140930_140020.jpg">
<img src="IMG_20140922_164619.jpg">
<img src="IMG_20140608_181811.jpg">
</div>
And my CSS:
#imagesMain{
display: inline-block;
position:relative;
padding: 0;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
margin-top: 20px;
text-align:center;
}
#imagesMain img{
height: 400px;
width: 300px;
vertical-align: center;
}
The images by default are huge. the 2nd CSS block resizes them but I can't get them to do much else. Any ideas?
You can use the almost same CSS, but with one simple correction, change:
vertical-align: middle;
And remove these:
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
There's no center here. It must be middle. Please correct it. And remove display: inline-block from the <div>. Your final code should be like:
#imagesMain {
padding: 0;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
margin-top: 20px;
text-align: center;
}
#imagesMain img {
height: 400px;
width: 300px;
vertical-align: middle;
}
<div id="imagesMain">
<img src="IMG_20140930_140020.jpg">
<img src="IMG_20140922_164619.jpg">
<img src="IMG_20140608_181811.jpg">
</div>
Click on Run Code Snippet and press Full Page to check if this is what you are expecting.
Try changing display: inline-block to display: block (as well as removing margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;. If you're ok with #imagesMain taking up 100% of the width of the screen, with the images centered inside, this will work fine.
try learing flexbox because it has many uses for nicely aligning items and content.
it also keeps your css very small.
if you would like to keep them centered al the time. you should use justify-content: center;
#imagesMain{
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
}
#imagesMain img{
height: 400px;
width: 300px;
margin: 0 10px;
}
<div id="imagesMain">
<img src="IMG_20140930_140020.jpg">
<img src="IMG_20140922_164619.jpg">
<img src="IMG_20140608_181811.jpg">
</div>
for alternative uses look at css tricks they give good examples for how to use flexbox.
Probably your problem is the container, because the image are correct align to the center, I have simplify your code and colored the container and images:
#imagesMain{
position:relative;
display: inline-block;
width:100%;
height:250px;
margin-top:20px;
background-color:red;
text-align:center;
}
#imagesMain img{
background-color:blue;
height: 200px;
width: 150px;
margin-left:-4px; /* trick for remove the space beetwen */
}
https://jsfiddle.net/bcpph0pp/1/
UPDATE
Reading other comments I think you want all aligned in the middle, this is a good resource for generate the code for FLEX BOX: http://the-echoplex.net/flexyboxes/
And this is the example: https://jsfiddle.net/bcpph0pp/2/
I know this has been asked many times but I can't find an answer that works for me. This is for several webpages so the images are not all the same size. I have tried vertical-align, table-cell, line-height and everything else that's been mentioned.
html: http://www.joekellywebdesign.com/UpdatedSite/services.html
<div id="contentright">
<img src="images/internet.jpg">
</div> <!-- end of contentright div -->
CSS: http://www.joekellywebdesign.com/UpdatedSite/css/styles.css
#contentright {
float: right;
background-color:#FFF;
width: 450px;
height: 350px;
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
text-align: center;
line-height: 350px;}
Use vertical-align: middle; on the img - I tried it via the F12 dev tool in Chrome, and it worked.
#contentright img {
vertical-align: middle;
}
This works because the parent is set to display:table-cell, and has vertical-align: middle
jsFiddle here
When I try to vertical align centered inner DIV my centering isn't working...
What's my problem here?
CSS Code:
#page_bar
{
width: 100%;
height: 30px;
background-color: white
}
.page_bar
{
width: 800px;
height: 30px;
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle
}
HTML Code:
<div id="page_bar">
<div class="page_bar">
Mapa Strony
</div>
</div>
EDIT: I want inner DIV to be centered, not the text in inner DIV...
EDIT: Look at: http://mistic-miners.comule.com/index.html the silver area must be centered which means the inner div must be centered not the text inside of inner div.
It looks like you may need to wrap the .page_bar class in order to get it to center horizontally with the table-cell display.
#wrap{
margin: 0px auto;
display:table;
}
#page_bar
{
width: 100%;
height: 30px;
background-color: white
}
.page_bar
{
width: 800px;
height: 30px;
display: table-cell;
text-align: left;
vertical-align: middle;
margin: 0px auto;
}
<div id="page_bar">
<div id="wrap">
<div class="page_bar">
Mapa Strony
</div>
</div>
</div>
This will be centered vertically and horizontally:
#page_bar
{
width: 100%;
height: 100px;
background-color: black;
text-align: center;
}
.page_bar
{
width: 800px;
height: 100px;
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
color: white;
}
jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/DgwwB/2/
if you add text-align:center; to #page_bar ?
vertical-align: middle
I think you forgot a ';' on this. Also give 2~3px space 30-27 or 33-30
I've had this issue and after wasted time on faffing about I finally found the obvious simple fix.
If you apply 'display:table-cell' to an element, apply 'display:table' to the parent, this will make vertical aligning work the way you expect it to.
This question already has answers here:
How to vertically align an image inside a div
(37 answers)
Flexbox: center horizontally and vertically
(14 answers)
How can I vertically align elements in a div?
(28 answers)
How do I center an image if it's wider than its container?
(10 answers)
Closed 3 years ago.
I have a div 200 x 200 px. I want to place a 50 x 50 px image right in the middle of the div.
How can it be done?
I am able to get it centered horizontally by using text-align: center for the div. But vertical alignment is the issue..
Working in old browsers (IE >= 8)
Absolute position in combination with automatic margin permits to center an element horizontally and vertically. The element position could be based on a parent element position using relative positioning. View Result
img {
position: absolute;
margin: auto;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
}
Personally, I'd place it as the background image within the div, the CSS for that being:
#demo {
background: url(bg_apple_little.gif) no-repeat center center;
height: 200px;
width: 200px;
}
(Assumes a div with id="demo" as you are already specifying height and width adding a background shouldn't be an issue)
Let the browser take the strain.
another way is to create a table with valign, of course. This would work regardless of you knowing the div's height or not.
<div>
<table width="100%" height="100%" align="center" valign="center">
<tr><td>
<img src="foo.jpg" alt="foo" />
</td></tr>
</table>
</div>
but you should always stick to just css whenever possible.
I would set your larger div with position:relative; then for your image do this:
img.classname{
position:absolute;
top:50%;
left:50%;
margin-top:-25px;
margin-left:-25px;
}
This only works because you know the dimensions of both the image and the containing div. This will also let you have other items within the containing div... where solutions like using line-height will not.
EDIT: Note... your margins are negative half of the size of the image.
This works correctly:
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto
else try this if the above only gives you horizontal centering:
.outerContainer {
position: relative;
}
.innerContainer {
width: 50px; //your image/element width here
height: 50px; //your image/element height here
overflow: auto;
margin: auto;
position: absolute;
top: 0; left: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0;
}
Use Flexbox:
.outerDiv {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
justify-content: center; /* Centering y-axis */
align-items :center; /* Centering x-axis */
}
here's another method to center everything within anything.
Working Fiddle
HTML: (simple as ever)
<div class="Container">
<div class="Content"> /*this can be an img, span, or everything else*/
I'm the Content
</div>
</div>
CSS:
.Container
{
text-align: center;
}
.Container:before
{
content: '';
height: 100%;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
}
.Content
{
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
}
Benefits
The Container and Content height are unknown.
Centering without specific negative margin, without setting the line-height (so it works well with multiple line of text) and without a script, also Works great with CSS transitions.
This is coming a bit late, but here's a solution I use to vertical align elements within a parent div.
This is useful for when you know the size of the container div, but not that of the contained image. (this is frequently the case when working with lightboxes or image carousels).
Here's the styling you should try:
container div
{
display:table-cell;
vertical-align:middle;
height:200px;
width:200px;
}
img
{
/*Apply any styling here*/
}
I've found that Valamas' and Lepu's answers above are the most straightforward answers that deal with images of unknown size, or of known size that you'd rather not hard-code into your CSS. I just have a few small tweaks: remove irrelevant styles, size it to 200px to match the question, and add max-height/max-width to handle images that may be too large.
div.image-thumbnail
{
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
line-height: 200px;
text-align: center;
}
div.image-thumbnail img
{
vertical-align: middle;
max-height: 200px;
max-width: 200px;
}
in the div
style="text-align:center; line-height:200px"
We can easily achieve this using flex. no need for background-image.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
#image-wrapper{
width:500px;
height:500px;
border:1px solid #333;
display:flex;
justify-content:center;
align-items:center;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="image-wrapper">
<img id="myImage" src="http://blog.w3c.br/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/css31-213x300.png">
</div>
</body>
</html>
Vertical-align is one of the most misused css styles. It doesn't work how you might expect on elements that are not td's or css "display: table-cell".
This is a very good post on the matter. http://phrogz.net/CSS/vertical-align/index.html
The most common methods to acheive what you're looking for are:
padding top/bottom
position absolute
line-height
In CSS do it as:
img
{
display:table-cell;
vertical-align:middle;
margin:auto;
}
#sleepy You can easily do this using the following attributes:
#content {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
border: 1px solid red;
}
#myImage {
display: block;
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
margin: auto;
border: 1px solid yellow;
}
<div id="content">
<img id="myImage" src="http://blog.w3c.br/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/css31-213x300.png">
</div>
References: W3
Typically, I'll set the line-height to be 200px. Usually does the trick.
I have a gallery of images for which I don't know the exact heights or widths of images beforhand, I just know that they are smaller than the div in which they are going to be contained.
By doing a combination of line-height settings on the container and using vertical-align:middle on the image element, I finally got it to work on FF 3.5, Safari 4.0 and IE7.0 using the following HTML markup and the following CSS.
The HTML Markup
<div id="gallery">
<div class="painting">
<a href="Painting/Details/2">
<img src="/Content/Images/Paintings/Thumbnail/painting_00002.jpg" />
</a>
</div>
<div class="painting">
...
</div>
...
</div>
The CSS
div.painting
{
float:left;
height:138px; /* fixed dimensions */
width: 138px;
border: solid 1px white;
background-color:#F5F5F5;
line-height:138px;
text-align:center;
}
div.painting a img
{
border:none;
vertical-align:middle;
}
This works for me :
<body>
<table id="table-foo">
<tr><td>
<img src="foo.png" />
</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
<style type="text/css">
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
#table-foo {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
}
#table-foo img {
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
}
</style>
Another way (not mentioned here yet) is with Flexbox.
Just set the following rules on the container div:
display: flex;
justify-content: center; /* align horizontal */
align-items: center; /* align vertical */
FIDDLE
div {
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
border: 1px solid green;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
/* align horizontal */
align-items: center;
/* align vertical */
}
<div>
<img src="http://lorempixel.com/50/50/food" alt="" />
</div>
A good place to start with Flexbox to see some of it's features and get syntax for maximum browser support is flexyboxes
Also, browser support nowadays is quite good: caniuse
For cross-browser compatibility for display: flex and align-items, you can use the following:
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;
This is an old solution but browser market shares have advanced enough that you may be able to get by without the IE hack part of it if you are not concerned about degrading for IE7. This works when you know the dimensions of the outer container but may or may not know the dimensions of the inner image.
.parent {
display: table;
height: 200px; /* can be percentages, too, like 100% */
width: 200px; /* can be percentages, too, like 100% */
}
.child {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
margin: 0 auto;
}
<div class="parent">
<div class="child">
<img src="foo.png" alt="bar" />
</div>
</div>
easy
img {
transform: translate(50%,50%);
}
You can set position of image is align center horizontal by this
#imageId {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right:auto;
}
I've been trying to get an image to be centered vertically and horizontally within a circle shape using hmtl and css.
After combining several points from this thread, here's what I came up with: jsFiddle
Here's another example of this within a three column layout: jsFiddle
CSS:
#circle {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background: #A7A9AB;
-moz-border-radius: 50px;
-webkit-border-radius: 50px;
border-radius: 50px;
margin: 0 auto;
position: relative;
}
.images {
position: absolute;
margin: auto;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
}
HTML:
<div id="circle">
<img class="images" src="https://png.icons8.com/facebook-like-filled/ios7/50" />
</div>
You can center an image horizontally and vertically with the code below (works in IE/FF).
It will put the top edge of the image at exactly 50% of the browser height, and the margin-top(pulling half the height of the image up) will center it perfectly.
<style type="text/css">
#middle {position: absolute; top: 50%;} /* for explorer only*/
#middle[id] {vertical-align: middle; width: 100%;}
#inner {position: relative; top: -50%} /* for explorer only */
</style>
<body style="background-color:#eeeeee">
<div id="middle">
<div id="inner" align="center" style="margin-top:...px"> /* the number will be half the height of your image, so for example if the height is 500px then you will put 250px for the margin-top */
<img src="..." height="..." width="..." />
</div>
</div>
</body>
I love jumping on old bandwagons!
Here's a 2015 update to this answer. I started using CSS3 transform to do my dirty work for positioning. This allows you to not have to make any extra HTML, you don't have to do math (finding half-widths of things) you can use it on any element!
Here's an example (with fiddle at the end). Your HTML:
<div class="bigDiv">
<div class="smallDiv">
</div>
</div>
With accompanying CSS:
.bigDiv {
width:200px;
height:200px;
background-color:#efefef;
position:relative;
}
.smallDiv {
width:50px;
height:50px;
background-color:#cc0000;
position:absolute;
top:50%;
left:50%;
transform:translate(-50%, -50%);
}
What I do a lot these days is I will give a class to things I want centered and just re-use that class every time. For example:
<div class="bigDiv">
<div class="smallDiv centerThis">
</div>
</div>
css
.bigDiv {
width:200px;
height:200px;
background-color:#efefef;
position:relative;
}
.smallDiv {
width:50px;
height:50px;
background-color:#cc0000;
}
.centerThis {
position:absolute;
top:50%;
left:50%;
transform:translate(-50%, -50%);
}
This way, I will always be able to center something in it's container. You just have to make sure that the thing you want centered is in a container that has a position defined.
Here's a fiddle
BTW: This works for centering BIGGER divs inside SMALLER divs as well.
div {
position: absolute;
border: 3px solid green;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
}
img {
position: relative;
border: 3px solid red;
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
}
.center {
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
-ms-transform: translate(-50%, -50%); /* IE 9 */
-webkit-transform: translate(-50%, -50%); /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
}
<div class="center">
<img class="center" src="http://placeholders.org/250/000/fff" />
</div>
Related: Center a image
thanks to everyone else for the clues.
I used this method
div.image-thumbnail
{
width: 85px;
height: 85px;
line-height: 85px;
display: inline-block;
text-align: center;
}
div.image-thumbnail img
{
vertical-align: middle;
}
Use positioning. The following worked for me:
div{
display:block;
overflow:hidden;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
position: relative;
}
div img{
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
bottom: 50%;
right: 50%;
position: absolute;
}
Simply set image margin auto as shown below.
img{
margin:auto;
width:50%;
height:auto;
}
Check these example
.container {
height: 200px;
width: 200px;
float:left;
position:relative;
}
.children-with-img {
position: absolute;
width:50px;
height:50px;
left:50%;
top:50%;
transform:translate(-50%);
}
If you know the size of the parent div and the image, you can just use absolute positioning.