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Ricardo Rodrigues
Ricardo Rodrigues

Reputation: 2703

How to vertically align into the center of the content of a div with defined width/height?

What would be the correct method to vertically center any content in a defined width/height div.

In the example there are two contents with different heights, what is the best way to center vertically both using the class .content . (and it works for every browser and without the solution of table-cell)

Have some solutions on mind, but would like to know other ideas, one is using position:absolute; top:0; bottom: 0; and margin auto.

Upvotes: 126

Views: 357567

Answers (6)

user15029851
user15029851

Reputation: 1

I would say to add a paragraph with a period in it and style it like so:

<p class="center">.</p>

<style>
.center {font-size: 0px; margin-bottom: anyPercentage%;}
</style>

You may need to toy around with the percentages to get it right

Upvotes: -4

me-and-viy
me-and-viy

Reputation: 109

Simple trick to vertically center the content of the div is to set the line height to the same as height:

<div>this is some line of text!</div>
div {
width: 400px
height: 50px;
line-height: 50px;
}

but this is works only for one line of text!

Best approach is with div as container and a span with the value in it:

.cont {
  width: 100px;
  height: 30px;
  display: table;
}

.val {
  display: table-cell;
  vertical-align: middle;
}

    <div class="cont">
      <span class="val">CZECH REPUBLIC, 24532 PRAGUE, Sesame Street 123</span>
    </div>

Upvotes: -1

martin36
martin36

Reputation: 2363

This could also be done using display: flex with only a few lines of code. Here is an example:

.container {
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
}

Live Demo

Upvotes: 97

N Kumar
N Kumar

Reputation: 1312

I found this solution in this article

.parent-element {
  -webkit-transform-style: preserve-3d;
  -moz-transform-style: preserve-3d;
  transform-style: preserve-3d;
}

.element {
  position: relative;
  top: 50%;
  transform: translateY(-50%);
}

It work like a charm if the height of element is not fixed.

Upvotes: 40

lokesh
lokesh

Reputation: 1

margin: all_four_margin

by providing 50% to all_four_margin will place the element at the center

style="margin: 50%"

you can apply it for following too

margin: top right bottom left

margin: top right&left bottom

margin: top&bottom right&left

by giving appropriate % we get the element wherever we want.

Upvotes: -9

Josh Mein
Josh Mein

Reputation: 28645

I have researched this a little and from what I have found you have four options:

Version 1: Parent div with display as table-cell

If you do not mind using the display:table-cell on your parent div, you can use of the following options:

.area{
    height: 100px;
    width: 100px;
    background: red;
    margin:10px;
    text-align: center;
    display:table-cell;
    vertical-align:middle;
}​

Live DEMO

Version 2: Parent div with display block and content display table-cell

.area{
    height: 100px;
    width: 100px;
    background: red;
    margin:10px;
    text-align: center;
    display:block;
}

.content {
    height: 100px;
    width: 100px;
    display:table-cell;
    vertical-align:middle;    
}​

Live DEMO

Version 3: Parent div floating and content div as display table-cell

.area{
    background: red;
    margin:10px;
    text-align: center;
    display:block;
    float: left;
}

.content {
    display:table-cell;
    vertical-align:middle;
    height: 100px;
    width: 100px;
}​

Live DEMO

Version 4: Parent div position relative with content position absolute

The only problem that I have had with this version is that it seems you will have to create the css for every specific implementation. The reason for this is the content div needs to have the set height that your text will fill and the margin-top will be figured off of that. This issue can be seen in the demo. You can get it to work for every scenario manually by changing the height % of your content div and multiplying it by -.5 to get your margin-top value. 

.area{
    position:relative; 
    display:block;
    height:100px;
    width:100px;
    border:1px solid black;
    background:red;
    margin:10px;
}

.content { 
    position:absolute;
    top:50%; 
    height:50%; 
    width:100px;
    margin-top:-25%;
    text-align:center;
}​

Live DEMO

Upvotes: 148

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