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Center CSS With Style — A How to

Learn to center CSS. We’ve all found ourselves frustrated with centering things in CSS, this is how to do it right

Stephen Sun
Better Programming
5 min readJun 17, 2018

Let’s be honest. A points in our coding careers, we’ve all found ourselves frustrated with centering things in CSS, and found ourselves looking up how to center a div within a div on Google or Stack Overflow.

It should be one of the simplest tasks, but can become confusing as you add more elements and styles to your page.

Since it’s a common problem, I’ve compiled a list of ways for centering in CSS. I’ve also included embeds/links with each example I created in CodePen. Feel free to fork, share, or copy as you wish!

View my CodePens here.

Without further ado, let’s get into it!

Text-Align Method

The “text-align: center” method is perhaps the most common one you’ll see for centering. It’s used mostly for centering text on your HTML page, but it can be used to center divs as…

Stephen Sun
Stephen Sun

Written by Stephen Sun

Software Architect at Eleox, Creator of Full Stack Express

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