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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

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…