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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Oldest 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.