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  Apah•280

  @apah-devPosted over 1 year ago

  I've struggled with centering items myself for a while but now i know many options you could use. I'll share them here. You could try them all out on a test project and then apply them on real projects when you understand them.

  container {
  margin-left: auto; 
  margin-right: auto; 
  width: 400px;
  }
  

  If you want to use margin and make it work you have to specify width if not it doesn’t work *There’s no way to vertically align it to the centre. That’s the disadvantage of this option *

  container {
  position: absolute; 
  top: 50%; left: 50%; 
  transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
  }
  
  

  • the -50%, -50% represent x and y axis *

  Using Flexbox method:

  main { 
  display: flex; 
  justify-content: center; 
  align-items: center; 
  height: 100vh; }
  

  Using the grid method:

  main { 
  display: grid; 
  align-items: center; 
  height: 100vh; 
  justify-content: center; 
  }
  

  this is far from exhaustive as the methods you can use are many. I do advice you try them out and figure out the one that's best for the particular project you're working on. also consider how it would work for the responsiveness of your page. Hope this helps

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  Olebogeng Sebogodi•80

  @OlebxgengPosted over 1 year ago

  @apah-dev Thank you !

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  orphandeity•530

  @orphandeityPosted over 1 year ago

  you can center your content by giving the containing element (the body in your case) a height and some flex-box properties like so...

  body {
      min-height: 100vh;
      display: flex;
      justify-content: center;
      align-items: center;
  }
  

  you could use grid instead like this...

  body {
      min-height: 100vh;
      display: grid;
      place-content: center;
  }
  

  to space the content within main evenly you can also take advantage of flex-box...

  main: {
      display: flex;
  }
  
  .img, .details {
      flex: 1;
  }
  

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  Olebogeng Sebogodi•80

  @OlebxgengPosted over 1 year ago

  @orphandeity Thank you!

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  wheels63•50

  @wheels63Posted over 1 year ago

  to center the main container horizontally and vertically smack in the middle:

  main {
    position: absolute;
    top: 50%;
    left: 50%;
    transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
  }
  

  some kind stranger told me about this. this will position the main container smack in the middle of the viewport.

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  Olebogeng Sebogodi•80

  @OlebxgengPosted over 1 year ago

  @wheels63 Thank you!

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