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We can center the using the text-align property. This is what it currently looks like without any styling. In this example, we have some text in our HTML: Let's learn how to center text vertically and horizontally But we can also use CSS Flexbox to vertically center the text. The text-align property is used to horizontally center text on the page. If we wanted to horizontally center that text on the page, then we can use the text-align property.title How to Horizontally and Vertically Center Text In this example, we have an which is placed on the upper left hand side of the page. When you are working with heading or paragraph tags, the default styling in HTML will position the text on the left hand side of the page. How to Use the text-align Property in CSS I will also talk about the tag and why you shouldn't use it to center text. In this article, I will show you how to use the text-align property in CSS and show you how to vertically align text using CSS Flexbox. But what is the best way to go about that? With a Sass mixin this step only takes me 3 lines.There will be many times where you will need to center some text using HTML and CSS.

* for centering */Īlternatively the solution is flexbox is much shorter and less probable to break something else. Then for the float-version which I know a lot of people still would use first. Who wants to see the Sass is very welcome to go look at the CodePen. Then we’ll add our CSS (I’m using Autoprefixer to take care of prefixing, so no prefixes in my CSS). A container and three subcontainers with the contents

Okay, for version 1 we need a very basic markup.

It may be really helpful in some placed, but for this layout the second examples are what we want. The space between each of the elements is the same. But if we increment the length of one of the sides you can see that the middle element is not really centered.īefore the middle element is centered, the width will be reduced on both sides and the element is centered within the space that’s left. The examples float1 and flex1 are written how I’d normally tackle this problem, because it’s fast and easy. See the Pen WvGdZL by Myri ( on CodePen.Īs you can see in the example above the problem becomes obvious. So when I recently wanted to do the same thing with three buttons, I found out, that I had to figure out a new method.īut a solution was found and that’s what I want to talk about today. But because I’ve mostly just worked with elements of the same width, I’ve never realized before, that it is actually not that easy, to really center the middle element.

), use margin: auto Setting the width of the element will prevent it from stretching out to the edges of its container.