I have text in a <div> that I want centered vertically. Any easy way to do this (non-absolute positioning method).
this is another method:
http://jsfiddle.net/SebastianPataneMasuelli/V2D3L/1/
the trick is to make the height of the div the same value as line-height.
<div>some text</div>
div {
line-height: 100px;
height: 100px;
}
this gives you a line of vertically centered text.
there is a way: http://www.jakpsatweb.cz/css/css-vertical-center-solution.html.
sorry, that uses absolute positioning.
(but it works)
Yes it is possible - a very thorough investigation can be found here:
http://www.jakpsatweb.cz/css/css-vertical-center-solution.html
No, unfortunately there is not good way of doing this using CSS. I would suggest using a javascript framework like JQuery or something like that a go to achieve this. Is it just text your are trying to vertically center?
Also, I know many people are reluctant to use tables however html tables will allow you to vertically center your text, so that may be a quick work around if you are not willing to use javascript to achieve this.
So I guess the its either use some javascript and avoid using html tables or just use tables to do your vertical centering for you.
Just for you reference you use the valign attribute on a td element of a table to vertically align its contents.
You could do something like this:
<div id="center-text">
<div id="center-text-inner">
hello there
</div>
</div>
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#center-text-inner').css({
'position' : 'relative',
'top' : ($('#center-text').height() - $(this).height()) / 2
});
});
Just add the following css to div
display:table-cell;
vertical-align:middle;
you can also see example http://www.templatespoint.com/blog/2010/10/div-vertical-align-middle/
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I am setting up a simple blog website and need help formatting the posts that are submitted to the front page of the site.
You can achieve this in multiple ways. Maybe the easiest way is to put your text in a container and give this a width. The text will wrap itself.
<div class="text">Your text here</div>
and your CSS. If you want to break within the word you can use word-wrap:break-word;.
.text {
width: 100px;
}
You have many options for this. simple one put you text in a <div> tag and give width to div as much you like.
<div style="width:100px">"Hello, this is my first post. As you can see, it wraps all the way around the text box and into another line."</div>
You should add a word-wrap css property and set it to break-word. This forces the text to wrap inside a container.
.container {
word-wrap: break-word;
}
So, I'm attempting to make my own website (Yeah, I finally sucked it up and started doing markup, sigh) - problem I'm having is I'm trying to center a button, and it's offset a little. Without the <center> it's all the way to the left.
Also tried :
style="align-items:center"
<div id="form-container" style="align-items:center;">
<div>
<fieldset>
<center><input class="button0" value="Install Redux" type="button" /></center>
</fieldset>
</div>
</div>
You just have to put <center> before your <div> and close it after </div>.
Like this:
<center>
<div id="form-container" style="align-items:center;">
<div>
<fieldset>
<input class="button0" value="Install Redux" type="button" />
</fieldset>
</div>
</div>
</center>
I've also made a CodePen and a JSFiddle for you.
Try text-align:center on the parent, or use left:0;top:0;position:relative;webkitTransform:translate3d(-50%,0%,0%); where parent doesn't have position:static (the default)
I would also recommend checking out Bootstrap because it has a nice grid layout that lets you define which 12ths of the page you want columns to lay in, simply by defining classes like .btn-default or .nav or in your case class="col-xs-12" inside that other column
They also have really nice styles for forms and input buttons etc. (see video on my example site below)
Try resizing your browser while looking at their examples. Pretty much, you define class="col-xs-12" if you want it to appear as 12/12 width of the row on extra small (mobile) and LARGER devices, and you can mix them class="col-xs-12 col-md-6" so it will split the row on larger (tablet) size devices. It's the number 1 repository on GitHub, and only takes about 30 minutes to read through the Grid Layout and search around for "Nav" and "Button" elements.
I recently made a quick site http://neaumusic.github.io, feel free to check it out, and good luck
Two ways:
1) Set margin-left: auto; AND margin-right: auto; to the containing div OR
2) Set display:flex; AND justify-content:center;to the parent container.
Google flex box for a little more information, its very useful for layout once you get the hang of it.
As stated in the comments, the center tag is no longer supported.
What about if you try #form-container { text-align: center; } ? It will center all children, including button.
I would definitely recommend using flexbox, the only issue being ie8/9 support.
It really makes layout so much easier and you don't have to create very specific, often arbitrary margins to get your stuff to align nicely, particularly vertical alignment.
Your alignment options are split between the container and the items. It does row and column layout too.
Here is a link I used to get me started.
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
I think I cannot do that one in CSS, but wanted to see whether someone would have such a solution...
I have a div with the page content, a div which can be in several different location in the HTML, and a set of paragraphs. The CSS would have to place the second div between two paragraphs.
There is a sample HTML:
<div id="to-be-placed">Move Me</div>
<div id="content">
<p>P1</p>
<p>P2</p>
<p>P3</p>
<p>P4</p>
<p>P5</p>
</div>
Say we want to place the "#to-be-placed" div after the 3rd paragraph, is there a way to do that in CSS? I can reference the 3rd paragraph as so:
content.p:nth-child(3)
But I really don't see a way to tell CSS to move my DIV to that location...
Note: the #to-be-placed div could be inside the #content div, at the beginning or at the end.
P.S. Please, don't come up with hard coded sizes and positions. That won't work.
P.S. Just in case you get all excited about jQuery. I know how to do it with jQuery. So no, I don't need you to give me such an answer. (see How to add div tag in-between two paragraphs when wrapped inside main div using jquery for those who wonder.)
This cannot be done using CSS, as CSS does not provide any mechanism for moving elements in HTML, only for styling existing elements and adding new content through the use of pseudoelements. The best you're going to get is a solution that uses JavaScript or jQuery.
If you only want to add styled text content, you can add that using the ::after pseudo-element in CSS, but it does not support HTML, only plain text:
p:nth-child(2)::after {
content: "- Added content";
}
<div id="content">
<p>P1</p>
<p>P2</p>
<p>P3</p>
<p>P4</p>
<p>P5</p>
</div>
You can't do that exactly, but a possible workaround would be to define the div as the ::after element on the 3rd p element. This technically puts the div inside the p, but it might do what you're looking for.
p:nth-child(3)::after {
content: "Move Me";
display: block;
}
Here's a fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/me5su05f/1/
Short answer: No you cannot do that. CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) is designed for styling. It is not designed to be used to manipulate DOM elements. JavaScript on the other hand is built for doing that. So if you happen to be wanting to use CSS for manipulating your DOM then you might want to re-think your approach to the solution.
I'm having a little CSS problem with a list of thumbnails. Here's an example:
http://jsfiddle.net/22hs8/
The problem is that when the link is too long to fit in the 150px block it will push the image down. By using inline-block on the list elements instead of a float I could get the images to line up properly, but now I want to have the links at the same height as well.
One thing I tried is making the links itself a block (or surrounding it by a div) and giving that a height, but that would mean they are always the same height even if none of the links uses two rules. Also, if a link is so long it uses three lines the same problem would occur.
In short: how do I align the links to the top of the list items, without breaking the image alignment?
To address one issue, you can add vertical-align:top; to the <li> tag in order to align the content to the top of the element, but unfortunately, I don't believe there's a way to resolve the issue entirely without also implementing one of the following methods:
Placing all of the tags in a separate
Specifying a height on the tags
Using javascript to equalize heights
Options
1. Separate Div
By moving the anchor tags into a separate div, they could be given the same width as the images and floated or displayed inline accordingly, but your markup becomes less semantic when you separate the anchor from the content (and may also be programmatically more complex if these are being dynamically generated).
2. Specifying a Height
This option can be thrown out almost immediately because, as you've stated, the anchor lengths can fluctuate to multiple lines. You could specify the height the the largest know line length, but then you'll ultimately end up with unnecessary white space with groups of short links.
3. JavaScript (jQuery)
While It would be ideal to resolve this issue without the requirement of JavaScript, I think it may be the only option that would allow you to preserve the semantics of your markup, and also apply an equal height to each of the anchor tags.
Recommended Solution
I would recommend setting a default height on the anchors of the largest known line length, then applying a bit of jQuery to normalize the heights of the anchors. This way, if the JavaScript parsing fails or JavaScript is disabled, the user still sees a uniform layout (albeit with potentially more whitespace), and with JavaScript active the heights are normalized.
Apply vertical-align:top; to the <li>
Define default height for non-js users
Equalize heights using jQuery:
(function(){
$.fn.equalizeHeights = function(){
return this.height( Math.max.apply(this, $(this).map(function(i,e){ return $(e).height() }).get() ))
}
$(function(){ $('li a').equalizeHeights(); });
})();
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/Eg7hy/
How is this:
http://jsfiddle.net/22hs8/3/
So you're saying that you want the links to not push the content down? I don't see that as being possible unless you don't allow your content to stretch at all. It's natural flow of a page for something above content to force the content down after it if it needs more space.
Have you thought about chopping off the text after a certain number of characters, with a '...' and providing the full text through a title, and providing the full text through a popup (since I assume you're creating some kind of photo gallery)?
The first answer that came to mind was:
"just use a table, it makes this really easy, and works everywhere"
Live Demo
However, I would probably get down voted into oblivion if I posted an answer only containing a <table> tag version, so here's a version using CSS display: table and friends:
Live Demo
Of course, that won't work in IE7 because that browser doesn't support display: table.
I can't think of a way to do this using code closer to your original and display: inline-block, which would also support an arbitrary number of lines. I'd love to see a better way to do this.
HTML:
<div id="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="cell">Some text</div>
<div class="cell">Some more text (too long)</div>
<div class="cell">Some text</div>
<div class="cell">Some text (seriously too long) text text text text text text text text text text text text text</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="cell"><div class="image">image</div></div>
<div class="cell"><div class="image">image</div></div>
<div class="cell"><div class="image">image</div></div>
<div class="cell"><div class="image">image</div></div>
</div>
</div>
(you could change some of those div tags into ul and li if you wanted to)
CSS:
#container {
display: table
}
.row {
display: table-row;
text-align: center
}
.cell {
display: table-cell;
width: 150px
}
.image {
width: 150px;
height: 150px;
background: grey
}
Add vertical-align:top; to the images.
Okay, this is a weird one to me. Here's the HTML element I'm working with:
LOLZ http://www.ubuntu-pics.de/bild/14571/screenshot_030_0O2o3D.png
A photo with a caption. Ideally, I'd like it to look like this, through pure CSS:
alt text http://www.ubuntu-pics.de/bild/14572/screenshot_031_mp84u7.png
The width of the image's parent element needs to be dependent on the image's size.
I can change the markup all I need to. (The text isn't currently in its own div, but it can be if necessary.) Is there any way in CSS to accomplish this? I get the impression that I need to "force" the text to wrap as much as possible (which doesn't seem achievable), or make the whole element's width dependent on just one element and ignore the other (which I've never heard of before).
Is there a real way? Or do I need to use magical Javascript instead? (The JS solution is fairly simple, but fairly lame...)
Check out this great article on the best ways of handling the image-with-a-caption scenario.
Personally this is one of those cases where you gotta suck it up and go with that works.
Make the container a table with table-layout:fixed and put the image in the top row. You can also do this with pure CSS using the display:table-* properties (and the IE7-js library for IE6 compatibility).
What table-layout:fixed does is make the table drawing algorithm lock the width of each table column once the width of the first cell in that column is known. The caption will have nowhere to expand to so it will wrap to the width of the image (the first cell).
Alright, it looks like there's no simple solution that I can pull off. Thanks for helping me work that out :)
I think that, given how I'll be storing those images, accessing width won't involve constant recalculation. I may just use that server-side magic instead.
Thanks!
Here's a solution that probably does not work for you even though it does produce the layout you requested:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<style>
div.a {float: left;
position:relative;}
div.b {
position: absolute;
top: 100%;
left: 0;
right: 0;
text-align: center;
background-color:gray;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="a">
<img src="http://stackoverflow.com/content/img/so/logo.png" alt="">
<div class="b">Caption text Caption text Caption text Caption text Caption text </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
You see the reason why it is unsatisfactory if you place some content below the div a. It will overlap with the caption, because the absolutely positioned caption did not extend the parent div vertically. It still may work for you if you have enough white space below anyway or you are willing to reserve it.
I came up with a working and fairly clean solution.
The solution uses a table (or div with display:table if you prefer) and adds a second column to "push" the first cell into the minimum space it really needs. The table can be set to 1px width to stop it growing across the page. I've put together a demo to show this in action:
http://test.dev.arc.net.au/caption-layout.html
Tested and working in IE8, Firefox and Safari/Win
The table answer would work. Easily. I can't encourage its use but ease-of-use does have merit. I was going to suggest using the clip: CSS property, but I can't get it to work on my local machine (for some reason, though it renders the example at cssplay.co.uk perfectly).
The downside of this is that it probably only works if you define fixed-widths for the containers. I'm sure there must be a way, though. I'll keep looking.