This syntax is outdated and shouldn't be used anymore. If you need to support older browsers which use older syntax for flexbox here's a good place to look. If you don't want to set a fixed width and don't want the extra margin, add display: inline-block to your element. Horizontally and vertically. Tinker with it further on Codepen or on JSBin.
Set the width and set margin-left and margin-right to auto. That's for horizontal only , though. If you want both ways, you'd just do it both ways.
Don't be afraid to experiment; it's not like you'll break anything. It cannot be centered if you don't give it a width. Otherwise, it will take, by default, the whole horizontal space. CSS 3's box-align property. I recently had to center a "hidden" div i. I wrote the following jQuery code to display the hidden div and then update the CSS content to the automatic generated width of the table and change the margin to center it.
The display toggle is triggered by clicking on a link, but this code wasn't necessary to display. The text-align: property is optional for modern browsers, but it is necessary in Internet Explorer Quirks Mode for legacy browsers support.
Another solution for this without having to set a width for one of the elements is using the CSS 3 transform attribute. You can use the same trick for vertical alignment. Here's a Fiddle showing horizontal and vertical alignment. More information is on Mozilla Developer Network. Chris Coyier who wrote an excellent post on 'Centering in the Unknown' on his blog.
It's a roundup of multiple solutions. I posted one that isn't posted in this question. It has more browser support than the Flexbox solution, and you're not using display: table; which could break other things. For example, see this link and the snippet below:.
If you have a lot of children under a parent, so your CSS content must be like this example on fiddle. In my experience, the best way to center a box horizontally is to apply the following properties:. See also this Fiddle! In my experience, the best way to center a box both vertically and horizontally is to use an additional container and apply the following properties:.
It works with justify-content: center. Please note: Flexbox is compatible all browsers exept Internet Explorer. See display: flex not working on Internet Explorer for a complete and up to date list of browsers compatibility. Applying text-align: center the inline contents are centered within the line box. 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. To center an element vertically, apply display: flex and align-items: center to the parent element:. This is very similar to the method above to center an element vertically. Like last time, you must know the width and height of the element you want to center. This just centers the top left corner of the child element vertically and horizontally.
To truly center the child element, apply a negative top margin set to half the child element's height, and a negative left margin set to half the child element's width:. Use this method to center an element vertically and horizontally if you don't know its exact dimensions and can't use Flexbox.
This is really just a combination of the two previous Flexbox methods. 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. Do you want some text on the page to be centered and the rest left-aligned?
Thankfully, divs can help. Divs — short for content division elements — are HTML elements that can divide your web page into sections so you can target them with unique CSS properties.
For example, say you want to include a caption below an image in a blog post. In that case, you could wrap the text in a div element and apply CSS to that specific element.
The other text on the page would remain unchanged. Understanding how to center divs and text in divs, in particular, is a valuable skill for beginner programmers. It can help prevent content from stretching out to the edges of its container, overlapping with other elements on the page, or other issues that arise when creating web page layouts. Using CSS, you can center text in a div in multiple ways. The most common way is to use the text-align property to center text horizontally. Another way is to use the line-height and vertical-align properties.
The last way exclusively applies to flex items and requires the justify-content and align-items properties. Using this method, you can center text horizontally, vertically, or both. We'll take a closer look at each method below. You can click on any of the source links to view the examples in full. There are two ways to center text in a div horizontally.
Let's take a look at examples of each method below. Say you want to create a div element with a short paragraph inside and a yellow border around it. Image Source. There's one exception to the rule above.
If you are using the display property to define your div as a flex container, then you can't use the text-align property to center text horizontally within the div. Instead, you have to use the justify-content property and define it with the value "center. Let's create the same div element with a yellow border around it as above.
You can start by defining the border property as you did above. Then, define the display property as "flex" to make the div a flex container and define the justify-content property as "center.
There are three ways to center text in a div vertically. They're slightly more complicated than the methods for centering text in a div horizontally. In most cases, you can center text vertically in a div using the padding property. While you can use the longhand form, using the shorthand padding property is easier because you only have to set two values. The first value will set the top and bottom padding. The second will set the right and left padding. Since you want to center the text vertically, the first value can be any positive length or percentage value.
The second value should be 0. Now use the class selector.
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