How can I center text horizontally and vertically inside a div block

Question

I have a div set to display block  90px height and width   and I have some text inside   I need the text to be aligned in the center both vertically and horizontally   I have tried text-align center  but it doesn t do the horizontal part  so I tried vertical-align middle  but it didn t work   Any ideas

User · Answer

This should be the right answer  Cleanest and simplest    element     position  relative    top  50     transform  translateY -50

User · Answer

For me this was the best solution   HTML      lt div id  outer  gt          lt img src  logo png  gt    lt  div gt    CSS    outer     position  fixed    top  50     left  50        bring your own prefixes      transform  translate -50   -50

User · Answer

If it is one line of text and or image  then it is easy to do  Just use   text-align  center  vertical-align  middle  line-height  90px           The same as your div height      That s it  If it can be multiple lines  then it is somewhat more complicated  But there are solutions on  http   pmob co uk   Look for  vertical align    Since they tend to be hacks or adding complicated divs    I usually use a table with a single cell to do it    to make it as simple as possible     Update for 2020   Unless you need make it work on earlier browsers such as Internet Explorer 10  you can use flexbox  It is widely supported by all current major browsers  Basically  the container needs to be specified as a flex container  together with centering along its main and cross axis    container     display  flex    justify-content  center    align-items  center      To specify a fixed width for the child  which is called a  flex item     content     flex  0 0 120px      Example  http   jsfiddle net 2woqsef1 1   To shrink-wrap the content  it is even simpler  just remove the flex      line from the flex item  and it is automatically shrink-wrapped   Example  http   jsfiddle net 2woqsef1 2   The examples above have been tested on major browsers including MS Edge and Internet Explorer 11   One technical note if you need to customize it  inside of the flex item  since this flex item is not a flex container itself  the old non-flexbox way of CSS works as expected   However  if you add an additional flex item to the current flex container  the two flex items will be horizontally placed  To make them vertically placed  add the flex-direction  column  to the flex container   This is how it works between a flex container and its immediate child elements   There is an alternative method of doing the centering  by not specifying center for the distribution on the main and cross axis for the flex container  but instead specify margin  auto on the flex item to take up all extra space in all four directions  and the evenly distributed margins will make the flex item centered in all directions  This works except when there are multiple flex items  Also  this technique works on MS Edge but not on Internet Explorer 11     Update for 2016   2017   It can be more commonly done with transform  and it works well even in older browsers such as Internet nbsp Explorer nbsp 10 and Internet nbsp Explorer nbsp 11  It can support multiple lines of text   position  relative  top  50   transform  translateY -50      Example  https   jsfiddle net wb8u02kL 1   To shrink-wrap the width   The solution above used a fixed width for the content area  To use a shrink-wrapped width  use  position  relative  float  left  top  50   left  50   transform  translate -50   -50      Example  https   jsfiddle net wb8u02kL 2   If the support for Internet nbsp Explorer nbsp 10 is needed  then flexbox won t work and the method above and the line-height method would work  Otherwise  flexbox would do the job

User · Answer

You can use the flex property at the parent div and add the margin auto property to the children items    parent       display  flex         You can change this to  row  if you want the items side by side instead of stacked        flex-direction  column        Change the  p  tag to what your items child items are     parent p       margin  auto      You can see more options of flex here  https   css-tricks com snippets css a-guide-to-flexbox

User · Answer

Using flexbox CSS     lt div class  box  gt       lt p gt  amp  x0D05  lt  p gt   lt  div gt    The CSS    box      display  flex      justify-content  center      align-items  center      Taken from Quick Tip  The Simplest Way To Center Elements Vertically And Horizontally

User · Answer

You can try very easy code for this     display  flex    align-items  center    justify-content  center     x000D   x000D   box  x000D    height  90px  x000D    width  90px  x000D    background  green  x000D    display  flex  x000D    align-items  center  x000D    justify-content  center  x000D    x000D   lt div class  box  gt  x000D    Lorem x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    Codepen link  http   codepen io santoshkhalse pen xRmZwr

User · Answer

Add the line display  table-cell  to your CSS content for that div   Only table cells support the vertical-align  middle   but you can give that  table-cell  definition to the div     A live example is here  http   jsfiddle net tH2cc   div      height  90px      width  90px      text-align  center      border  1px solid silver      display  table-cell     This says treat this element like a table cell     vertical-align middle     Now we can center vertically like in a TD

User · Answer

This worked for me    center-stuff      text-align  center      vertical-align  middle      line-height  230px     This should be the div height

User · Answer

Give this CSS class to the targeted  lt div     x000D   x000D   centered   x000D    width  150px  x000D    height  150px  x000D    display  flex  x000D    align-items  center  x000D    justify-content  center  x000D    text-align  center  x000D    background  red     Not necessary just to see the result clearly    x000D    x000D   lt div class  centered  gt This text is centered horizontally and vertically lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

User · Answer

This works for me  tested OK     HTML    lt div class  mydiv  gt       lt p gt Item to be centered  lt  p gt   lt  div gt    CSS    mydiv       height  100      Or other        position  relative      mydiv p       margin  0      position  absolute      top  50       left  50       margin-right  -50       transform  translate -50   -50       To compensate own width and height        You can choose other values than 50   For example  25  to center at 25  of parent

User · Answer

Apply style   position  absolute  top  50   left  0  right  0    Your text would be centered irrespective of its length

User · Answer

Parent     display table       Child     display  table-cell    width  100      As large as its parent to center the text horizontally   text-align  center    vertical-align  middle     Vertically align this element on its parent

User · Answer

Common techniques as of 2014      Approach 1 - transform translateX translateY   Example Here   Full Screen Example  In supported browsers  most of them   you can use top  50  left  50  in combination with  translateX -50   translateY -50   to dynamically vertically horizontally center the element    container       position  absolute      top  50       left  50       transform  translateX -50   translateY -50            Approach 2 - Flexbox method   Example Here   Full Screen Example  In supported browsers  set the display of the targeted element to flex and use align-items  center for vertical centering and justify-content  center for horizontal centering  Just don t forget to add vendor prefixes for additional browser support  see example    html  body   container       height  100      container       display  flex      align-items  center      justify-content  center          Approach 3 - table-cell vertical-align  middle   Example Here   Full Screen Example  In some cases  you will need to ensure that the html body element s height is set to 100    For vertical alignment  set the parent element s width height to 100  and add display  table  Then for the child element  change the display to table-cell and add vertical-align  middle   For horizontal centering  you could either add text-align  center to center the text and any other inline children elements  Alternatively  you could use margin  0 auto assuming the element is block level   html  body       height  100      parent       width  100       height  100       display  table      text-align  center     parent  gt   child       display  table-cell      vertical-align  middle          Approach 4 - Absolutely positioned 50  from the top with displacement   Example Here   Full Screen Example  This approach assumes that the text has a known height - in this instance  18px  Just absolutely position the element 50  from the top  relative to the parent element  Use a negative margin-top value that is half of the element s known height  in this case - -9px   html  body   container       height  100      container       position  relative      text-align  center     container  gt  p       position  absolute      top  50       left  0      right  0      margin-top  -9px          Approach 5 - The line-height method  Least flexible - not suggested    Example Here  In some cases  the parent element will have a fixed height  For vertical centering  all you have to do is set a line-height value on the child element equal to the fixed height of the parent element   Though this solution will work in some cases  it s worth noting that it won t work when there are multiple lines of text - like this    parent       height  200px      width  400px      text-align  center     parent  gt   child       line-height  200px         Methods 4 and 5 aren t the most reliable  Go with one of the first 3

User · Answer

GRID   center       display  grid      justify-items  center      align-items  center       x000D   x000D   center   x000D      display  grid  x000D      justify-items  center  x000D      align-items  center  x000D    x000D   x000D   box   x000D      width  200px  x000D      height  100px  x000D      background  red  x000D    x000D   lt div class  box center  gt My text lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

User · Answer

x000D   x000D  div   x000D    height  90px  x000D    line-height  90px  x000D    text-align  center  x000D    border  2px dashed  f69c55  x000D    x000D   lt div gt  x000D    Hello  World   x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

User · Answer

Approach 1   x000D   x000D  div   x000D    height  90px  x000D    line-height  90px  x000D    text-align  center  x000D    border  2px dashed  f69c55  x000D    x000D   lt div gt  x000D    Hello  World   x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    Approach 2   x000D   x000D  div   x000D    height  200px  x000D    line-height  200px  x000D    text-align  center  x000D    border  2px dashed  f69c55  x000D    x000D  span   x000D    display  inline-block  x000D    vertical-align  middle  x000D    line-height  normal  x000D    x000D   lt div gt  x000D     lt span gt Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet  consectetur adipiscing elit  Haec et tu ita posuisti  et verba vestra sunt  Non enim iam stirpis bonum quaeret  sed animalis   lt  span gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    Approach 3   x000D   x000D  div   x000D    display  table  x000D    height  100px  x000D    width  100   x000D    text-align  center  x000D    border  2px dashed  f69c55  x000D    x000D  span   x000D    display  table-cell  x000D    vertical-align  middle  x000D    x000D   lt div gt  x000D     lt span gt Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet  consectetur adipiscing elit  lt  span gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

User · Answer

lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html gt     lt head gt       lt style gt         maindiv           height  450px          background   f8f8f8          display  -webkit-flex          align-items  center          justify-content  center                p           font-size  24px               lt  style gt     lt  head gt      lt body gt       lt div class  maindiv  gt         lt h1 gt Title lt  h1 gt       lt  div gt     lt  body gt   lt  html gt

User · Answer

2020 Way  parent     display  grid    place-items  center

User · Answer

Really simple code that works for me  Just one line and your text will be centered horizontally     center-horizontally    justify-content  center      lt Card Footer className  card-body-padding center-horizontally  gt     lt label className  support-expand-text-light  gt Call or email Customer Support to change lt  label gt   lt  Card Footer gt    The output looks like this      Please vote this answer if it works for just to spare some time of devs looking for easy solutions  Thanks

User · Answer

You can try the following methods    If you have a single word or one line sentence  then the following code can do the trick   Have a text inside a div tag and give it an id  Define the following properties for that id   id-name     height  90px    line-height  90px    text-align  center    border  2px dashed red      Note  Make sure the line-height property is same as the height of the division   Image  But  if the content is more than one single word or a line then this doesn   t work  Also  there will be times when you cannot specify the size of a division in px or    when the division is really small and you want the content to be exactly in the middle   To solve this issue  we can try the following combination of properties   id-name     display  flex    justify-content  center    align-items  center    border  2px dashed red      Image  These 3 lines of code sets the content exactly in the middle of a division  irrespective of the size of the display   The  align-items  center  helps in vertical centering while  justify-content  center  will make it  horizontally centered   Note  Flex does not work in all browsers  Make sure you add appropriate vendor prefixes for additional browser support

User · Answer

I always use the following CSS for a container  to center its content horizontally and vertically   display  -webkit-box  display  -moz-box  display  -ms-flexbox  display  -webkit-flex  display  flex   -webkit-box-align  center  -moz-box-align  center  -ms-flex-align  center  -webkit-align-items  center  align-items  center   -webkit-box-pack  center  -moz-box-pack  center  -ms-flex-pack  center  -webkit-justify-content  center  justify-content  center    See it in action here  https   jsfiddle net yp1gusn7

User · Answer

lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html gt       lt head gt        lt  head gt       lt body gt           lt div style   text-align  center   gt Center horizontal text lt  div gt           lt div style   position  absolute  top  50   left  50   transform  translateX -50   translateY -50     gt Center vertical text lt  div gt       lt  body gt   lt  html gt

User · Answer

Adjusting line height to get the vertical alignment   line-height  90px

User · Answer

lt div class  small-container  gt       lt span gt Text centered lt  span gt   lt  div gt    lt style gt   small-container       width 250px      height 250px      border 1px green solid      text-align center      position  absolute      top  50       left  50       -moz-transform  translateX -50   translateY -50        -webkit-transform  translateX -50   translateY -50        transform  translateX -50   translateY -50       small-container span      position  absolute      top  50       left  50       -moz-transform  translateX -50   translateY -50        -webkit-transform  translateX -50   translateY -50        transform  translateX -50   translateY -50       lt  style gt

User · Answer

x000D   x000D   cell-row  display  table  width  100   height  100px  background-color  lightgrey  text-align  center  x000D   cell  display  table-cell  x000D   cell-middle  vertical-align  middle  x000D   lt div class  cell-row  gt  x000D     lt div class  cell cell-middle  gt Center lt  div gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

User · Answer

Try the following example  I have added examples for each category  horizontal and vertical   lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html gt       lt head gt           lt style gt               horizontal                               text-align  center                             vertical                               position  absolute                  top  50                   left  50                   transform  translateX -50   translateY -50                            lt  style gt       lt  head gt       lt body gt            lt div id   horizontal  gt Center horizontal text lt  div gt            lt div id   vertical  gt Center vertical text lt  div gt       lt  body gt   lt  html gt

User · Answer

Add the following code in the parent div  display  grid   place-items  center

[html] How can I center text (horizontally and vertically) inside a div block?

Examples related to html

Examples related to css