element inside a
I want my element to be at the center of a container
Centered and middled content ?
Do it this way :
<table style="width:100%">
<tr>
<td valign="middle" align="center">Table once ruled centering</td>
</tr>
</table>
I fiddled it here
Ha, let me guess .. you want DIVs ..
just make your first outter DIV behave like a table-cell then style it with vertical align:middle;
<div>
<p>I want this paragraph to be at the center, but I can't.</p>
</div>
div {
width:500px;
height:100px;
background-color:aqua;
text-align:center;
/* there it is */
display:table-cell;
vertical-align:middle;
}
jsfiddle.net/9Mk64/
You only need to add text-align: center
to your <div>
In your case also remove both styles that you added to your <p>
.
Check out the demo here: http://jsfiddle.net/76uGE/3/
Good Luck
You dont need absolute positioning Use
p {
text-align: center;
line-height: 100px;
}
And adjust at will...
If text exceeds width and goes more than one line
In that case the adjust you can do is to include the display property in your rules as follows;
(I added a background for a better view of the example)
div
{
width:300px;
height:100px;
display: table;
background:#ccddcc;
}
p {
text-align:center;
vertical-align: middle;
display: table-cell;
}
Play with it in this JBin
on the p element, add 3 styling rules.
.myCenteredPElement{
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
text-align: center;
}
To get left/right centering, then applying text-align: center
to the div
and margin: auto
to the p
.
For vertical positioning you should make sure you understand the different ways of doing so, this is a commonly asked problem: Vertical alignment of elements in a div
♣you should do these steps :
♣♣simply here is the summery of those 5 steps:
.mother_Element {
position : relative;
height : 20%;
width : 5%;
text-align : center
}
.child_Element {
height : 1.2 em;
width : 5%;
margin : auto;
position : absolute;
top:0;
bottom:0;
left:0;
right:0;
}