The example below centers a paragraph inside a block that has a certain given height. A separate example shows a paragraph that is centered vertically in the browser window, because it is inside a block that is absolutely positioned and as tall as the window. At this time , a good way to center blocks vertically without using absolute positioning which may cause overlapping text is still under discussion.
But if you know that overlapping text will not be a problem in your document, you can use the 'transform' property to center an absolutely positioned element. For example: This paragraph is vertically centered. Centering vertically and horizontally in CSS level 3 We can extend both methods to center horizontally and vertically at the same time.
A side-effect of making the paragraph absolutely positioned is that it is then only as wide as it needs to be unless we give it an explicit width, of course. Float Clear Float Examples. Navbar Vertical Navbar Horizontal Navbar. Shadow Effects Box Shadow. This div element is centered. Without Clearfix. With Clearfix. Phasellus imperdiet, nulla et dictum interdum, nisi lorem egestas odio, vitae scelerisque enim ligula venenatis dolor. Report Error. Your message has been sent to W3Schools.
Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. This is simple and nice but it's only working with a one line content text : — Nicolas Guillaume. You have to use the! Note that it may be necessary to add "float:none;" for the inner. You also set the top and bottom margins to 0, which is unrelated. Better putting margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto I think.
Show 12 more comments. SabaAhang the correct syntax for that would be float: none; and is probably only needed because inner has inherited a float of either left or right from somewhere else in your CSS. This is a nice solution. Just keep in mind that inner will inherit text-align so you may want to set inner's text-align to initial or some other value. Safari, as of now, still requires -webkit flags for flexbox display: -webkit-flex; and -webkit-align-items: center; and -webkit-justify-content: center; — Joe Hansen.
I always think that use lots code is bad practice for example with this code I center my div: display: table; margin: auto; simple and easy — simon. Suppose that your div is pixels wide:. I don't like this solution because when the inner element is too broad for the screen, you can't scroll over the whole element horizontally.
The default width for most block level elements is auto, which fills the available area on screen. Just being centered places it in the same position as left alignment. If you wish it to be visually centered you should set a width or a max-width although Internet Explorer 6 and earlier do not support this, and IE 7 only supports it in standards mode. Note that you must declare a width on the element you wish to center horizontally or height if centering vertically.
Here's a comprehensive explanation: codepen. You cannot use padding within the div, but if you want to give the illusion use a border of the same color. Some posters have mentioned the CSS 3 way to center using display:box. The Flexbox specification has gone through 3 major revisions. The most recent draft is from Sept , which officially deprecates all previous drafts. However, browser support is spotty particularly old Android browsers : stackoverflow.
This worked for me in Chrome when Justin Poliey's version didn't. Isn't the "justify-content: center;" for the vertical alignment and the "align-items: center;" for the horizontal alignment? WouterVanherck it depends on the flex-direction value. If it is 'row' the default - then justify-content: center; is for the horizontal alignment like I mentioned in the answer If it is 'column' - then justify-content: center; is for the vertical alignment.
Salman von Abbas. I used this, too, but I've never encountered display: table; before. What does it do? However, it's not fully supported in some legacy browsers like Internet Explorer.
To center an element horizontally with Flexbox, just apply display: flex and justify-content: center to the parent element:. Centering elements vertically without modern methods like Flexbox can be a real chore. Here we'll go over some of the older methods to center things vertically first, then show you how to do it with Flexbox. For a long time this was the go-to way to center things vertically. For this method you must know the height of the element you want to center.
To truly center the child element, set the margin-top property to - half the child element's height :. If you don't know the height of the element you want to center or even if you do , this method is a nifty trick.
This method is very similar to the negative margins method above. Set the position property of the parent element to relative.
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