First of all, my apologies. I know there are various solutions posted for this issue here, but for the life of me I can't get any of them to work.
For a responsive website I'm trying to center an h1 in a div.
Centering horizontally is not an issue, but I'm having problems getting it centered vertically. Presumably I'm doing something wrong or misunderstanding the explanations I found here (or maybe both).
So as I'm probably interpreting earlier solutions given the wrong way, could someone please explain what exactly I have to add to the code beneath to get the h1 to center vertically?
(To make this question relevant to as much people as possible, I've already stripped the code of all my previous attempts to do so myself.)
CSS:
html, body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
#section1 {
min-height: 90%;
text-align:center
}
HTML:
<div class="section" id="section1">
<h1>Lorem ipsum</h1>
</div>
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I've had success putting text within span tags and then setting vertical-align: middle on that span. Don't know how cross-browser compliant this is though, I've only tested it in webkit browsers.
This is the jQuery method. Looks like overkill but it calculates the offset.
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://raw.github.com/dreamerslab/jquery.center/master/jquery.center.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
$('#jquery-center').center();
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="jquery-center" style="position:absolute;">
<h1>foo</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
HTML
<div id='sample'>
<span class='vertical'>Test Message</span>
</div>
CSS
#sample
{
height:100px;
width:100%;
background-color:#003366;
display:table;
text-align: center;
}
.vertical
{
color:white;
display:table-cell;
vertical-align:middle;
}
Fiddle : Demo
Just use padding top and bottom, it will automatically center the content vertically.
You can achieve this with the display property:
html, body {
height:100%;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
#section1 {
width:100%; /*full width*/
min-height:90%;
text-align:center;
display:table; /*acts like a table*/
}
h1{
margin:0;
padding:0;
vertical-align:middle; /*middle centred*/
display:table-cell; /*acts like a table cell*/
}
Source: Stackoverflow.com