Many a time I noticed that people find it very difficult to align content to the center either vertically or horizontally using CSS 😐.
So I decided to write a few ways of aligning content to the center using CSS 😃.
Center aligning text in CSS.
So let's start with the easy one aligning text to the center of the screen. To do this just use the style text-align:center on the specific tag you want to align the text to the center.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>center align content</title> </head> <body> <h1 style="text-align: center;">🍔 is center aligned</h1> <p>🍒 still in left</p> </body> </html> aligning content to the center
Now let's get into a little complicated stuff. Aligning a div or any content to the center. So the trick is using margin:auto and giving a specific width to the div. This will get the div aligned horizontally center to the parent element.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>center align content</title> </head> <style> body{ margin: 0; } .box{ height:25rem; background-color: blueviolet; width: 25rem; margin: auto; } </style> <body> <div class="box"></div> </body> </html> To align an image to the center for an img tag you need to just add one more CSS property that is display:block.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>center align content</title> </head> <style> body{ margin: 0; } .imgCenter{ display: block; background-color: blueviolet; margin: auto; } </style> <body> <img class="imgCenter" src="https://i.chzbgr.com/full/7588073728/h78549C5D/not-sure-if-i-hate-css-or-i-hate-designers"/> </body> </html> Suppose you want to align a div both vertically and horizontally to the center of the parent element then you can do that with the below code.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <style> .centerBox { margin: 0; position: absolute; background-color: blue; height:15rem; width:15rem; top: 50%; left:50%; -ms-transform: translate(-50%, -50%); transform: translate(-50%, -50%); } </style> </head> <body> <div class="centerBox"></div> </body> </html> Using flex to align content to the center
A still better way of aligning content to the center is by using the flex properties.
Suppose you want to align a div horizontally to the center of the parent element. Then you need to apply the display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; properties to the parent element.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>center align content</title> </head> <style> body{ margin: 0; } .container { display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; } .box{ width: 100px; height: 100px; background-color: blueviolet; } </style> <body> <div class="container"> <div class="box"></div> </div> </body> </html> Suppose you want to vertically and horizontally align a div to the center of the parent element then you need to add the following style to html and body tag.
html, body { height: 100%; } and give some height to the parent element.
That's it your content should be vertically and horizontally aligned to the parent element. The below snippet shows how a div can be aligned to the center.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>center align content</title> </head> <style> html, body { height: 100%; } body{ margin: 0; } .container { height: 100%; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; } .box{ width: 100px; height: 100px; background-color: blueviolet; } </style> <body> <div class="container"> <div class="box"></div> </div> </body> </html> Congrats we are at the end of this post. I hope you enjoyed the topic.
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Top comments (1)
I already save this post because it is useful, by the time when I must settle my code, meant when I'll stayed working on some interface,so then that kind of kwnowledge needs to keep in sight.