Center content inside a div - html

I have the following markup. I am trying to have "Previous" all the way to the left, "Next" all the way to the right, and the numbers centered. I can't seem to get the numbers centered.
I tried margin: 0 auto; on .numbers to no avail. The closest I've come was to set the left margin on .numbers to something like 40%, but that seems hackish, because previous and next might not always be there, and there may be more or less than 4 numbers. I'm pretty flexible with the markup and css.
http://jsfiddle.net/dcsUc/15/
<div id="content">
<div class="pagination">
<div class="previous">Previous</div>
<div class="numbers">
1
2
3
4
</div>
<div class="next">Next</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
</div>​
And
#content {
width: 100%;
border: 1px solid #000;
}
.previous, .numbers {
float: left;
}
.next {
float: right;
}
.clear {
clear: both;
}
​

Move div.next to before div.numbers in the markup, don't float .numbers, and apply text-align: center to .numbers.
jSFiddle for those who don't think in css ;)

If you want to use "margin: 0px auto" you also have to set a width for the div.

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remove vertical empty space when div floating

It is my fault, I am trying to re-ask the question.
I have some code like this:
<style>
div {
float: left; width: 150px; padding: 10px;
margin: 10px; color: #fff;
}
</style>
<div style="background: #c33">
a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a
</div>
<div style="background: #3c3;">
b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>
b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b
</div>
<div style="background: #33c;">
c<br>c<br>c<br>c<br>c<br>c<br>c
</div>
<div style="background: #399;">
d<br>d<br>d<br>d<br>d<br>d<br>d<br>d<br>d<br>d<br>
</div>
<div style="background: #939;">
e<br>e
</div>
<div style="background: #993;">
f<br>f<br>f<br>f<br>f
</div>
<!--
... and so on ...
-->
when my visitor's screen has enough width, it is works fine like this.
when the screen become smaller, it still works fine at beginning.
but good time doesn't last long, when continually shrink screen size, it displayed like this.
some space appeared between c(the blue one) and e(the purple one).
then a(the red one) and f(the yellow one).
when shrink to 2 columns, a c and e are totally separated.
So, my question is, every my block have certain(fixed) width, uncertain(fluid) height, there is no max-width of this "block area" or say "the parent node of these blocks" or container whatever.
Can I just remove these unnecessary spaces using pure css way?
Hope this time I explained clearly, and thank you for reading my post.
You might try to left float only two, and float right the other:
.aaa,
.bbb,
.ccc {
width: 200px;
padding: 10px;
margin: 20px;
color: #fff;
}
.bbb {
float: right;
}
.aaa,
.ccc {
float: left;
}
<div class="aaa" style="background: #933">
a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a
</div>
<div class="bbb" style="background: #393">
b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br> b
<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>bbr>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b
</div>
<div class="ccc" style="background: #339">
c<br>c<br>c<br>c<br>c<br>c
</div>
Grid, flex... and even simply using floats and clears:
<style>
div {
width: 200px; padding: 10px;
margin: 20px; color: #fff;
}
</style>
<div style="background: #933; float: left;">
a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a
</div>
<div style="background: #393; float:right;">
b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>
b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b
</div>
<div style="background: #339; clear:left;">
c<br>c<br>c<br>c<br>c<br>c
</div>
To some extent you can do that, if you use left AND right floats as shown below and put a wrapper around it to let the right-floated elements not go too far right:
div {
width: 200px;
padding: 10px;
margin: 20px;
color: #fff;
}
.a {
float: left;
}
.b {
float: right;
}
.wrapper {
width: 520px;)
<div class="wrapper">
<div style="background: #933" class="a">
a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a<br>a
</div>
<div style="background: #393" class="b">
b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br> b
<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>bbr>b<br>b<br>b<br>b<br>b
</div>
<div style="background: #339" class="a">
c<br>c<br>c<br>c<br>c<br>c
</div>
</div>
Like others have said, there are plenty ways of doing it, but I'd use flexbox.
Just wrap the two boxes on the left in a container div, and use display:flex on that container, and set the flex-direction property to column and they should stack on top of one another.
Here's a great website to pick up the basics - http://flexboxfroggy.com/
Oddly enough, the closest you could get is using damn CSS columns..
Yeah, that's right. I just said "CSS Columns"
Declaring an auto column layout using your divs width as column width, and making sure no div will wrap into multiple columns with break-inside: avoid; you can get pretty close.
body {
columns: 150px;
column-gap: 2em;
}
div {
break-inside: avoid;
}
https://jsfiddle.net/p0yLs5sh/1/
And yes, I know. I just said columns. Thought that would never be an answer.

Vertically align elements in header div (text and logo)

I haven't used CSS quite often. I always get stuck even when it get's to the simplest layout questions. Even though I am reading a book I cannot figure out how the following works:
I want to design a website which has a header on top, then menu bar and then content. Menu bar and content are working quite good. But I want to have a header with some header text on the left and a logo on the right.
So I have taken this approach:
<div id="headline">
<div id="headertext">Some title<br/>some more title text</div>
<div id="logo"><img src="somelogo.png" /></div>
</div>
And for the CSS:
#headline { overflow: hidden;
height: 224px;
text-align: left;
padding: 0px 80px 0px 80px;
}
#headertext { font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 20pt;
color: #000000;
float: left;
font-weight: bold;
}
#logo {
float: right;
}
So I made the text on the left float: left and the logo on the right float: right. So far so good. Now I want to align both elements to the vertical middle of the parent <div> that has a certain height.
This is what I want it to look like (the blue rectangle is the logo):
I have tried using vertical-align: middle but this does not work out. I have also stumbled across display:table-cell and display: inline but I must have used it in a wrong way or it also does not work. Do I have to use another "wrapper" <div> inside the headline element?
Edit: thanks for the hint about fiddle; I tried to edit one: http://jsfiddle.net/f5vpakdv/
Thank you for your help!
You can achieve this using display: table and display: table-cell, together with vertical-align: middle.
I've removed some irrelevant bits from your original CSS to make it easier to see what's different.
To make it work perfectly after you add padding or margin, check this link: Box Sizing | CSS-Tricks.
<div id="headline">
<div id="headertext">
Some title<br/>some more title text
</div>
<div id="logo">
<div id="fakeImg"></div>
</div>
</div>
...
#headline {
width: 100%;
height: 224px;
background: yellow;
display: table;
}
#headertext {
text-align: left;
}
#headertext,
#logo {
display: table-cell;
width: 50%;
vertical-align: middle;
}
#fakeImg {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background: blue;
float: right;
}
Demo
You can use some CSS to accomplish this. Also check for vendor-specific transforms.
.vertical-center {
position: relative;
top: 50%;
transform: translateY(-50%);
}
Here is a fiddle, and I added another div wrapper.
http://jsfiddle.net/5o3xmfxn/
Updated version of your fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/f5vpakdv/1/
I have updated your fiddle here. I simply added display:table; to your wrapping div and gave both inner divs a style of:
display:table-cell;
vertical-align:middle;
I also made a version using flexbox here
I just added the following styles to your wrapping div:
display:flex;
align-items:center;
justify-content:space-between;
I would go for something easier like this. Just put wrapper around the content that you want to center and use a margin-top: http://jsfiddle.net/f5vpakdv/2/
<div id="headline">
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="headertext">Some title some
<br/>more title text</div>
<div id="logo"><img src="somelogo.png" width="198px" height="120px" />
</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS
#wrapper {
margin-top: 60px;
}

How do I center align a div that contains floated elements?

I need inner_holder to have width of 960px and I need it to be centered. I tried using width: 960px and margin: 0px auto but it doesn't work. How can I center the divs inside inner_holder?
HTML:
<div class="parent_container">
<div class="inner_holder">
<div class="column column1">
<div class="inner_clip"></div>
</div>
<div class="column column2">
<div class="inner_clip"></div>
</div>
<div class="column column3">
<div class="inner_clip"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS:
.parent_container {
 height: auto;
     margin: 15px auto;
     min-height: 500px;
     width: 960px;
}
.column {
float: left;
margin-right: 50px;
}
.inner_clip {
background-color: #333333;
height: 250px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
width: 250px;
}
As you can see here the "div that contains floated elements" is actually in the center (red).
I am assuming you want to center the floating elements themselves, not their parent. I'm afraid you can't do that (as far as I know). But in case you are not depending on your elements actually floating, you propably just want to display your .colum as inline-block with an text-align:center set to the parent.
Changes to your CSS:
.parent_container {
text-align:center; // added
}
.column {
display: inline-block; // added
margin: 0 25px; // added
float: left; // removed
margin-right: 50px; // removed
}
Result as Fiddle
I beat my head trying to figure this out forever.
The answer above about assigning "display:inline-block" to the elements in the div, and then assigning "text-align: center" to the parent div works
BUT BUT BUT... I had a class of "clearfix" on my parent div that apparently was mucking the whole thing up. As soon as I removed that clearfix class everything centered nicely (after hours of futile frustration, of course;).
Hope this helps someone.

Align a div to center

I want to float a div to center. Is it possible? text-align: center is not working in IE.
There is no float to center per se. If you want to center a block element inside another do this:
<div id="outer">
<div id="inner">Stuff to center</div>
</div>
with:
#outer { width: 600px; }
#inner { width: 250px; margin: 0 auto; }
Now that won't make the text wrap around it (like it would with a float left or right) but like I said: there is no float center.
This has always worked for me.
Provided you set a fixed width for your DIV, and the proper DOCTYPE, try this
div {
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
}
Hope this helps.
The usual technique for this is margin:auto
However, old IE doesn't grok this so one usually adds text-align: center to an outer containing element. You wouldn't think that would work but the same IE's that ignore auto also incorrectly apply the text align center to block level inner elements so things work out.
And this doesn't actually do a real float.
floating divs to center "works" with the combination of display:inline-block and text-align:center.
Try changing width of the outer div by resizing the window of this jsfiddle
<div class="outer">
<div class="block">one</div>
<div class="block">two</div>
<div class="block">three</div>
<div class="block">four</div>
<div class="block">five</div>
</div>
and the css:
.outer {
text-align:center;
width: 50%;
background-color:lightgray;
}
.block {
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
border: 1px solid lime;
display: inline-block;
margin: .2rem;
background-color: white;
}
Following solution worked for me.
.algncenterdiv {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
One of my websites involves a div whose size is variable and you won't know it ahead of time. it is an outer div with 2 nested divs, the outer div is the same width as the first nested div, which is the content, and the second nested div right below the content is the caption, which must be centered. Because the width is not known, I use jQuery to adjust accordingly.
so my html is this
<div id='outer-container'>
<div id='inner-container'></div>
<div id='captions'></div>
</div>
and then I center the captions in jQuery like this
captionWidth=$("#captions").css("width");
outerWidth=$("#outer-container").css("width");
marginIndent=(outerWidth-captionWidth)/2;
$("#captions").css("margin","0px "+marginIndent+"px");
Use "spacer" divs to surround the div you want to center. Works best with a fluid design. Be sure to give the spacers height, or else they will not work.
<style>
div.row{width=100%;}
dvi.row div{float=left;}
#content{width=80%;}
div.spacer{width=10%; height=10px;}
</style>
<div class="row">
<div class="spacer"></div>
<div id="content">...</div>
<div class="spacer"></div>
</div>
This worked for me..
div.className {
display: inline-block;
margin: auto;
}
this could help you..:D
div#outer {
width:200px;
height:200px;
float:left;
position:fixed;
border:solid 5px red;
}
div#inner {
border:solid 5px green;
}
<div id="outer">
<center>
<div id="inner">Stuff to center</div>
</center>
</div>
No, it isn't.
You can either have content bubble up to the right of an element (float: left) or to the left of an element (float: right), there is no provision for having content bubble up on both sides.
<div id="outer" style="z-index:10000;width:99%;height:200px;margin-top:300px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;float:left;position:absolute;opacity:0.9;">
<div id="inner" style="opacity:1;background-color:White;width:300px;height:200px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;">Inner</div></div>
Float the div in the background to the max width, set a div inside that that's not transparent and center it using margin auto.
this works nicely
width:40%; // the width of the content div
right:0;
margin-right:30%; // 1/2 the remaining space
This resizes nicely with adaptive layouts also..
CSS example would be:
.centered-div {
position:fixed;
background-color:#fff;
text-align:center;
width:40%;
right:0;
margin-right:30%;
}
This worked for me.
I included an unordered list on my page twice.
One div class="menu" id="vertical" the other to be centered was div class="menu" id="horizontal". Since the list was floated left, I needed an inner div to center it. See below.
<div class=menu id="horizontal">
<div class="fix">
Centered stuff
</div>
</div>
.menu#horizontal { display: block; float: left; margin: 0px; padding: 0 10px; position: relative; left: 50%; }
#fix { float: right; position: relative; left: -50%; margin: 0px auto; }
Try this, it helped me: wrap the div in tags, the problem is that it will center the content of the div also (if not coded otherwise). Hope that helps :)

CSS float and HTML questions

I have some questions about basic CSS that I was unable to understand or find an answer for.
First, I tried placing 3 div tags within another div tag. The first main div tag containing the 3 other tags had nothing set for it except a size, which was 400px by 400px. Of the other 3 divs inside, all were 20px by 20px, and 1 was assigned float:left, and the other two were assigned a style that was float right. All attributes were defined within a style, and the two divs that were float:right were assigned the same style. My problem is that out of the 2 divs, the one that came last in the code, would appear first in a browser, and I did not understand the reasoning for this.
Here is the code:
<html>
<head>
<style>
#main{
border: red 4px dashed;
width: 25%
height: 25%,
}
#left{
float: left;
width: 20px;
height: 20px,
}
#right{
float: right;
width: 20px;
height: 20px,
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="main">
<div id="left">1</div>
<div id="right">2</div>
<div id="right">3</div>
</div>
</body>
</head>
</html>
My problem is that out of the 2 divs,
the one that came last in the code,
would appear first in a browser, and I
did not understand the reasoning for
this.
I think that You misunderstood a "appear first". You set Your divs to be floating right. So a "2" div, which is FIRST in Your code, is FIRST to be floated right, so it goes first to the right side. A "3" div is then floated, so i goes to the left side of the "2" div - because "2" was first, it took first place at the right side of the browser window, and div "3" took second place at the right side of the window.
In this case "second place at the right side of the window" means "first, looking from the left" ;-)
At first, I would use class and not id for the divs. But there are also some typo's in the css:
#main{
border: red 4px dashed;
width: 25%; /* <-- Missing ; */
height: 25%; /* <-- change , to ; */
}
#left{
float: left;
width: 20px;
height: 20px; /* <-- change , to ; */
}
#right{
float: right;
width: 20px;
height: 20px; /* <-- change , to ; */
}
I don't know about the layering problem, but you can't have two elements with the same ID. You probably want:
...
<div class="right">2</div>
<div class="right">3</div>
...
and change #right to .right in the CSS.
I think your problem is that you are using id instead of class. An ID is supposed to be unique, so the second div with id="right" is the only one with that id.
You could change your code such that you have:
< div class="right" >2< /div >
< div class="right" >3< /div >
(instead of id="right")
And in the css you would have:
.right {
float: right;
width: 20px;
height: 20px,
}
(instead of #right)
you can use this code
<div id="main">
<div id="left">1</div>
<div id="right">3</div>
<div id="right">2</div>
</div>
You cannot use the same id for more than one time.
<div class="right">2</div>
<div class="right">3</div>
Better way you can do it with assigning class.
<html>
<head>
<style>
#main {
border: 4px dashed red;
display: block;
overflow: hidden;
}
#left {
float: left;
width: 20px;
height: 20px,
}
#right {
float: right;
width: 20px;
height: 20px,
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="main">
<div id="left">1</div>
<div id="right">3</div>
<div id="right">2</div>
</div>
</body>
</head>
</html>