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burke
burke

Reputation: 91

Center button horizontally with CSS

I am learning HTML and CSS and I am having difficulty centering a button within a <div>. Here is the code I currently have:

.box-information {
  border: 2px solid #000000;
  margin: 0 auto 15px auto;
  padding: 0 10px 60px 10px;
  width: 80%;
  background-color: #ffffff;
  position: relative;
}

.button-blue:link,
.button-blue:visited {
  width: 7em;
  display: block;
  padding: 10px 15px;
  background-color: rgba(66, 85, 123, 1);
  font-size: 1.0em;
  text-indent: 0;
  text-align: center;
  color: #ffffff;
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 10px;
  left: auto;
}
<div class="box-information your-business">
  <p class="title-information">
    Your Business
  </p>
  <p class="text-information">
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
  </p>
  <a class="button-blue learn-more" href="#">Learn More</a>
</div>

I am able to offset the button from the bottom, and I can offset the button horizontally if I use anything but AUTO.

Please help me understand what I am doing wrong.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 15913

Answers (3)

Ishara Amarasekera
Ishara Amarasekera

Reputation: 1449

Set margin-left:50%;. This set my button to the middle of its parent control.

Upvotes: 0

felixmosh
felixmosh

Reputation: 35493

Update

.box-information {
  border: 2px solid #000000;
  margin: 0 auto 15px auto;
  padding: 0 10px 60px 10px;
  width: 80%;
  background-color: #ffffff;
  position: relative;
}

.button-blue:link,
.button-blue:visited {
  width: 7em;
  display: block;
  padding: 10px 15px;
  background-color: rgba(66, 85, 123, 1);
  font-size: 1.0em;
  text-indent: 0;
  text-align: center;
  color: #ffffff;
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 10px;
  left: 50%;
  transform: translateX(-50%);
}
<div class="box-information your-business">
  <p class="title-information">
    Your Business
  </p>
  <p class="text-information">
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
  </p>
  <a class="button-blue learn-more" href="#">Learn More</a>
</div>

Upvotes: 1

Felix Guo
Felix Guo

Reputation: 2708

To center a block element in it's parent, all you need to do is add:

margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;

to the button's CSS properties.

(You will need to remove the position: absolute and the absolute positioning properties first.)

Take a look at this codepen: https://codepen.io/anon/pen/qXYEpd

Upvotes: 4

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