HTML-CSS: Display table centering
HTML-CSS : Exercise-26 with Solution
Using HTML, CSS vertically and horizontally centers a child element within its parent element, using display: table.
- Use display: table to make the .center element behave like a <table> element.
- Set height and width to 100% to make the element fill the available space within its parent element.
- Use display: table-cell on the child element to make it behave like a <td> elements.
- Use text-align: center and vertical-align: middle on the child element to center it horizontally and vertically.
- The outer parent (.container) must have a fixed width and height.
HTML Code:
<!--License: https://bit.ly/3GjrtVF-->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
<title>Using HTML, CSS vertically and horizontally centers a child element within its parent element, using display: table</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="w3rcontainer">
<div class="center"><span>w3resource.com</span></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
CSS Code:
.w3rcontainer {
border: 1px solid orange;
height: 250px;
width: 250px;
}
.center {
display: table;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
.center > span {
display: table-cell;
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
}
HTML-CSS Editor:
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HTML-CSS: Tips of the Day
How to get CSS to select ID that begins with a string ?
[id^=product]
^= indicates "starts with". Conversely, $= indicates "ends with".
The symbols are actually borrowed from Regex syntax, where ^ and $ mean "start of string" and "end of string" respectively.
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