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Richard Víquez Pérez
Asked: 2022-09-13 22:38:14 +0800 CST 2022-09-13 22:38:14 +0800 CST

How to center and/or align content inside a div with CSS

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I haven't been able to get some text to align horizontally and vertically within a div.

I have the following css :

html, body {
    position: relative;
    margin:0;
    padding: 0;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
}

body {
    color: #333;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 8px;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;
}

div{
    display: grid;
        background-color: blue;
        max-height: 200px;
        min-height: 200px;
        min-width: 100%;
        max-width: 100%;
    }
    div p{

        color:white ;
        justify-content: center;
        align-items: center;
        text-align: center;
    }
<div>
    <p>{tkn}</p>
</div>

In theory, the paragraph inside divshould be centered both horizontally and vertically according to the css code , but the text is painting it for me at the top.

That is to say that you are not centering it vertically , only horizontally .

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2 Answers

  1. To fix it, just change the styles you have in pthe parent

    div {
    display: grid;
    background-color: blue;
    justify-content: center;
    align-items: center;
    max-height: 200px;
    min-height: 200px;
    min-width: 100%;
    max-width: 100%;
}

div p {
    color: white;
    text-align: center;
}

    Only by changing those two attributes of p to div, the content of the div will be centered vertically.

    You have to remember that who sets the style of how the content will look is the container, not the content.

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  2. Best Answer

    In the styles of the div, you must replace "display: grid;" by "display: flex;" and in the styles of the p element, you should add these two lines: margin: 0 auto; align-self: center;

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