Forgive me for asking such a simple question, I'm new to both HTML and CSS. Is there an easy way to center a textarea? I figured I'd just try using
textarea{ margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; }
but it (obviously?) didn't work.
@Chris -- just add text-align:center; to your current <div> 's css declaration then. :-) You can add all styling to the same div (color, font-family, text-align,...) or isn't this what you mean?
You can do this by setting the display property to "flex." Then define the align-items and justify-content property to “center.” This will tell the browser to center the flex item (the div within the div) vertically and horizontally.
Center Align Elements To horizontally center a block element (like <div>), use margin: auto; Setting the width of the element will prevent it from stretching out to the edges of its container.
The margins won't affect the textarea because it is not a block level element, but you can make it display block if you like:
textarea { display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; }
By default, textareas are display: inline
, which is why you can put them side-by-side easily, and why the text-align: center
answers work too.
The textarea can also be centered by putting it inside a flexbox container like this:
<style> div.justified { display: flex; justify-content: center; } </style> <div class="justified"> <textarea>Textarea</textarea> </div>
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