How do I verically center the content of floating div (which height I don't know)?
There is very simple HTML and CSS (see this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/DeH6E/1/)
<div class="floating"> This should be in the middle </div> .floating { height: 100px; float: left; border: 1px solid red; vertical-align: middle; }
How do I make the sentence "This should be in the middle" appear really in the middle (vertically centered)? vertical-align: middle
does not seem to work. I have tried display: table-cell
and it didn't work either. What's the best way to solve this issue? I'd like to avoid inserting any other HTML tags, do it just via CSS.
(Just to make it clear: I don't know the actual height of the container, 100px is just for the example)
EDIT: I'd like you to understand me, so... Always when I design web page, I follow the rule that HTML holds the content and CSS is responsible for the visual style. I never mix them up together or use one just to enable the other. In this case, I want to stick with this rule too. I don't want to insert HTML element just for the CSS.
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.
By creating a wrapper around the content you want floated, you can then use the ::after or ::before pseudo selectors to vertically align your content within the wrapper. You can adjust the size of that content all you want without it affecting the alignment.
To center the text using float we can use margin-left or margin-right and make it 50% , like below.
For vertical alignment, set the parent element's width / height to 100% and add display: table . Then for the child element, change the display to table-cell and add vertical-align: middle . For horizontal centering, you could either add text-align: center to center the text and any other inline children elements.
The others are right, you need to nest two DOM elements which gives you more options controlling the centering. Here's the code:
.floating { display: table; float: right; height: 200px; width: 400px; border: 1px solid red; } .floating p { display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; }
<div class="floating"> <p>This is the proper way that validates and breaks across multiple lines, if the text is longer than just a few words and still should be vertically centered. Here, it's also horizontally centered for added joy.</p> </div>
Add the text inside a <p>
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HTML
<div class="floating"> <p>This should be in the middle</p> </div>
CSS
.floating { height: 100px; border: 1px solid #f00; display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle; }
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