I have a div that contains an image and a p tag (seen below). I want to align the image in the middle of the div vertically depending on how many lines the paragraph is. Vertical-align doesn't work. I am using JavaScript right now to figure out how much to add to margin-top, but would rather use CSS. Any ideas?
<div> <img> <p>Multi-line</p> </div>
To center an image vertically, you can wrap it in a block element like a div and use a combination of the CSS position property, the left and top properties, and the transform property.
vertical-align defines the vertical alignment for the content of a table cell or for an inline element against the rest of the inline flow. vertical-align can take a % or length value, or it can take one of the following 8 keywords: baseline : The default. Baseline of the element aligned to the baseline of the parent.
We need to create a parent element that contain both image and text. After declaring the parent element as flexbox using display: flex; we can align the items to the center using align-items: center;. Example: This example uses flexbox to vertically align text next to an image using CSS.
This is pure CSS, vertically aligns the image, and also resizes the image down if it's taller (or wider) than the containing box. Ergo, the box and image can both be any size without breaking the vertical alignment. Also, you may want to add a left margin to the <p>
tags to keep them from being hidden by the image.
/* Positioning */ .absoluteCenterWrapper { position: relative; /* Contains the image in the div */ } .absoluteCenter { /* Aligns image vertically */ margin: auto; position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; } .absoluteCenterWrapper p { /* Pushes <p> to edge of image */ margin-left: 101px; /* Width of image */ } .absoluteCenter { /* Specifies width of image to avoid overlap if image changes */ width: 101px; /* Width of image */ } /* Sizing - resizes down to avoid cutting off */ .absoluteCenter { max-height: 100%; max-width: 100%; } /* Making it "pretty" */ .absoluteCenterWrapper { margin: 1em; padding: 0.001em; /* <- Hack to contain margins */ outline: 1px solid red; } .absoluteCenterWrapper p { margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 1em;}
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Try setting the line-height
attribute of the p
element to the height of the image, eg:
div p { line-height: 18px; }
Edit: Just realised I misread the question and missed the fact the p
would be multi-line. One option to try is removing the img
element altogether and setting it as the background-image
of the p
instead, with a background-position
of left, center
. Something like:
div p { background: transparent url(path/to/img) no-repeat left center; padding-left:30px; /* Set based on width of image */ }
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