I am trying to center 2 div elements vertically and horizontally and this should work well and it usually does, but not here..
HTML
<div class="contact">
<h3>WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?</h3>
<div class="cta-btn">
<h3>CONTACT US</h3>
</div>
</div>
CSS
.contact {
font-size: 0.8em;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
text-align: center;
.cta-btn {
width: 8em;
padding: 0.2em;
border-radius: 2em;
}
}
There are (at least) two ways to achieve what you're looking for.
One uses flexboxes. Here you need an initial container that consumes your full window and into this container you put another container that is positioned in the center and into that you can put your content (code is shortened to minimum):
.box {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
}
.flexcontainer {}
<div class="box">
<div class="flexcontainer">
<span class="left">Left Content</span>
<span class="right">Right Content</span>
</div>
</div>
[edit]: Obviously, the initial container (.box here) could also be a header or something not spanning the full windows height. In this case, you would not have to position it absolute and define the top, bottom, left and right positions but could work with width and height or use a dynamic size.[/edit]
The other method is based on the assumption that you know the height of your content container:
.container {
width: 500px;
height: 200px;
margin: calc(50vh - 101px) auto;
/* calc(50 percent of window height minus half the size of the container including borders!) */
border: 1px solid #000;
}
<div class="container">Content</div>
Correct this code, adding follow properties in css:
<div class="contact">
<h3>WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?</h3>
<div class="cta-btn">
<h3>CONTACT US</h3>
</div>
</div>
.contact {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
align-items: center;
h3 {
flex-shrink: 0;
}
.cta-btn {
flex-grow: 1;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
}
}
.contact{
display:flex;
align:center;
}
.cta-btn{
display:flex;
align:center;
}
<div class="contact">
<h3>WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?</h3>
<div class="cta-btn">
<h3>CONTACT US</h3>
</div>
</div>
Imagine the following layout, where the dots represent the space between the boxes:
[Left box]......[Center box]......[Right box]
When I remove the right box, I like the center box to still be in the center, like so:
[Left box]......[Center box].................
The same goes for if I would remove the left box.
................[Center box].................
Now when the content within the center box gets longer, it will take up as much available space as needed while remaining centered. The left and right box will never shrink and thus when where is no space left the overflow:hidden and text-overflow: ellipsis will come in effect to break the content;
[Left box][Center boxxxxxxxxxxxxx][Right box]
All the above is my ideal situation, but I have no idea how to accomplish this effect. Because when I create a flex structure like so:
.parent {
display : flex; // flex box
justify-content : space-between; // horizontal alignment
align-content : center; // vertical alignment
}
If the left and right box would be exactly the same size, I get the desired effect. However when one of the two is from a different size the centered box is not truly centered anymore.
Is there anyone that can help me?
Update
A justify-self would be nice, this would be ideal:
.leftBox {
justify-self : flex-start;
}
.rightBox {
justify-self : flex-end;
}
If the left and right boxes would be exactly the same size, I get the desired effect. However when one of the two is a different size the centered box is not truly centered anymore. Is there anyone that can help me?
Here's a method using flexbox to center the middle item, regardless of the width of siblings.
Key features:
pure CSS
no absolute positioning
no JS/jQuery
Use nested flex containers and auto margins:
.container {
display: flex;
}
.box {
flex: 1;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
}
.box:first-child > span { margin-right: auto; }
.box:last-child > span { margin-left: auto; }
/* non-essential */
.box {
align-items: center;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
background-color: lightgreen;
height: 40px;
}
p {
text-align: center;
margin: 5px 0 0 0;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="box"><span>short text</span></div>
<div class="box"><span>centered text</span></div>
<div class="box"><span>loooooooooooooooong text</span></div>
</div>
<p>↑<br>true center</p>
Here's how it works:
The top-level div (.container) is a flex container.
Each child div (.box) is now a flex item.
Each .box item is given flex: 1 in order to distribute container space equally (more details).
Now the items are consuming all space in the row and are equal width.
Make each item a (nested) flex container and add justify-content: center.
Now each span element is a centered flex item.
Use flex auto margins to shift the outer spans left and right.
You could also forgo justify-content and use auto margins exclusively.
But justify-content can work here because auto margins always have priority.
8.1. Aligning with auto
margins
Prior to alignment via justify-content and align-self, any
positive free space is distributed to auto margins in that dimension.
Use three flex items in the container
Set flex: 1 to the first and last ones. This makes them grow equally to fill the available space left by the middle one.
Thus, the middle one will tend to be centered.
However, if the first or last item has a wide content, that flex item will also grow due to the new min-width: auto initial value.
Note Chrome doesn't seem to implement this properly. However, you can set min-width to -webkit-max-content or -webkit-min-content and it will work too.
Only in that case the middle element will be pushed out of the center.
.outer-wrapper {
display: flex;
}
.item {
background: lime;
margin: 5px;
}
.left.inner-wrapper, .right.inner-wrapper {
flex: 1;
display: flex;
min-width: -webkit-min-content; /* Workaround to Chrome bug */
}
.right.inner-wrapper {
justify-content: flex-end;
}
.animate {
animation: anim 5s infinite alternate;
}
#keyframes anim {
from { min-width: 0 }
to { min-width: 100vw; }
}
<div class="outer-wrapper">
<div class="left inner-wrapper">
<div class="item animate">Left</div>
</div>
<div class="center inner-wrapper">
<div class="item">Center</div>
</div>
<div class="right inner-wrapper">
<div class="item">Right</div>
</div>
</div>
<!-- Analogous to above --> <div class="outer-wrapper"><div class="left inner-wrapper"><div class="item">Left</div></div><div class="center inner-wrapper"><div class="item animate">Center</div></div><div class="right inner-wrapper"><div class="item">Right</div></div></div><div class="outer-wrapper"><div class="left inner-wrapper"><div class="item">Left</div></div><div class="center inner-wrapper"><div class="item">Center</div></div><div class="right inner-wrapper"><div class="item animate">Right</div></div></div>
The key is to use flex-basis. Then the solution is simple as:
.parent {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
}
.left, .right {
flex-grow: 1;
flex-basis: 0;
}
CodePen is available here.
Here's an answer that uses grid instead of flexbox. This solution doesn't require extra grandchild elements in the HTML like the accepted answer does. And it works correctly even when the content on one side gets long enough to overflow into the center, unlike the grid answer from 2019.
The one thing this solution doesn't do is show an ellipsis or hide the extra content in the center box, as described in the question.
section {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 1fr auto 1fr;
}
section > *:last-child {
white-space: nowrap;
text-align: right;
}
/* not essential; just for demo purposes */
section {
background-color: #eee;
font-family: helvetica, arial;
font-size: 10pt;
padding: 4px;
}
section > * {
border: 1px solid #bbb;
padding: 2px;
}
<section>
<div>left</div>
<div>center</div>
<div>right side is longer</div>
</section>
<section>
<div>left</div>
<div>center</div>
<div>right side is much, much longer</div>
</section>
<section>
<div>left</div>
<div>center</div>
<div>right side is much, much longer, super long in fact</div>
</section>
Instead of defaulting to using flexbox, using grid solves it in 2 lines of CSS without additional markup inside the top level children.
HTML:
<header class="header">
<div class="left">variable content</div>
<div class="middle">variable content</div>
<div class="right">variable content which happens to be very long</div>
</header>
CSS:
.header {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: [first] 20% auto [last] 20%;
}
.middle {
/* use either */
margin: 0 auto;
/* or */
text-align: center;
}
Flexbox rocks but shouldn't be the answer for everything. In this case grid is clearly the cleanest option.
Even made a codepen for your testing pleasure:
https://codepen.io/anon/pen/mooQOV
You can do this like so:
.bar {
display: flex;
background: #B0BEC5;
}
.l {
width: 50%;
flex-shrink: 1;
display: flex;
}
.l-content {
background: #9C27B0;
}
.m {
flex-shrink: 0;
}
.m-content {
text-align: center;
background: #2196F3;
}
.r {
width: 50%;
flex-shrink: 1;
display: flex;
flex-direction: row-reverse;
}
.r-content {
background: #E91E63;
}
<div class="bar">
<div class="l">
<div class="l-content">This is really long content. More content. So much content.</div>
</div>
<div class="m">
<div class="m-content">This will always be in the center.</div>
</div>
<div class="r">
<div class="r-content">This is short.</div>
</div>
</div>
Here is another way to do it, using display: flex in the parents and childs:
.Layout{
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
}
.Left{
display: flex;
justify-content: flex-start;
width: 100%;
}
.Right{
display: flex;
justify-content: flex-end;
width: 100%;
}
<div class = 'Layout'>
<div class = 'Left'>I'm on the left</div>
<div class = 'Mid'>Centered</div>
<div class = 'Right'>I'm on the right</div>
</div>
A slightly more robust grid solution looks like this:
.container {
overflow: hidden;
border-radius: 2px;
padding: 4px;
background: orange;
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: minmax(max-content, 1fr) auto minmax(max-content, 1fr);
}
.item > div {
display: inline-block;
padding: 6px;
border-radius: 2px;
background: teal;
}
.item:last-child > div {
float: right;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="item"><div contenteditable>edit the text to test the layout</div></div>
<div class="item"><div contenteditable>just click me and</div></div>
<div class="item"><div contenteditable>edit</div></div>
</div>
And here you can see it in Codepen: https://codepen.io/benshope2234/pen/qBmZJWN
I wanted the exact result shown in the question, I combined answers from gamliela and Erik Martín Jordán and it works best for me.
.parent {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
}
.left, .right {
flex-grow: 1;
flex-basis: 0;
}
.right {
display: flex;
justify-content: flex-end;
}
you can also use this simple way to reach exact center alignment for middle element :
.container {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
}
.container .sibling {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
height: 50px;
background-color: gray;
}
.container .sibling:first-child {
width: 50%;
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
}
.container .sibling:last-child {
justify-content: flex-end;
width: 50%;
box-sizing: border-box;
padding-left: 100px; /* .center's width divided by 2 */
}
.container .sibling:last-child .content {
text-align: right;
}
.container .sibling .center {
height: 100%;
width: 200px;
background-color: lightgreen;
transform: translateX(50%);
}
codepen: https://codepen.io/ErAz7/pen/mdeBKLG
Althought I might be late on this one, all those solutions seems complicated and may not work depending on the cases you're facing.
Very simply, just wrap the component you want to center with position : absolute, while letting the other two with justify-content : space-between, like so :
CSS:
.container {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
align-items: center;
background-color: lightgray;
}
.middle {
position: absolute;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
/* You should adapt percentages here if you have a background ; else, left: 0 and right: 0 should do the trick */
left: 40%;
right: 40%;
text-align: center;
}
/* non-essential, copied from #Brian Morearty answer */
.element {
border: 1px solid #ccc;
background-color: lightgreen;
}
p {
margin: 5px;
padding: 5px;
}
<div class="container">
<p class="element">First block</p>
<p class="middle element">Middle block</p>
<p class="element">Third THICC blockkkkkkkkk</p>
</div>
Michael Benjamin has a decent answer but there is no reason it can't / shouldn't be simplified further:
.container {
display: flex;
}
.box {
flex: 1;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
}
.box:first-child { justify-content: left; }
.box:last-child { justify-content: right; }
And html
<div class="container">
<div class="box">short text</div>
<div class="box">centered tex</div>
<div class="box">loooooooooooooooong text</div>
</div>
I'm trying to create a Flexbox setup comprised of two div elements which are both taking up 50% of the width of the screen equally.
The left side will have some text and the right side will have an image which will only fill the whole of it's 50% of the width, shrinking larger images down if necessary.
What's the best way to achieve this? I'm fairly new to Flexbox.
.content{
position: relative;
display: flex;
width: 100%;
height: 600px;
}
.content div{
flex-direction: column;
justify-content: center;
flex: 1;
}
.text{
background-color: pink;
}
.image{
background-color: paleturquoise;
}
<section class="content">
<div class="text">
<p>text goes here</p>
</div>
<div class="image">
<img src="https://i.imgur.com/rcZLIwH.jpg" alt="image">
</div>
</section>
You can make the .image position: relative and set the width of the image to 100%:
.content{
position: relative;
display: flex;
width: 100%;
height: 600px;
}
.content div{
flex-direction: column;
justify-content: center;
flex: 1;
}
.text{
background-color: pink;
}
.image{
background-color: paleturquoise;
/* make the parent position relative */
position: relative;
}
.image img {
/* make the width of the image equal to the parent width */
width: 100%;
}
<section class="content">
<div class="text">
<p>text goes here</p>
</div>
<div class="image">
<img src="https://i.imgur.com/rcZLIwH.jpg" alt="image">
</div>
</section>
I have a vertically central adaptable scrollable flexbox element, which itself should have two columns (I solved this with two child-divs). The central flexbox should have a frame and a central divider line.
I can't get the central divider line to run all the way to the bottom of the scrollable flexbox. I tried it with a third child div element but the line only appears for the vertical extent of the flexbox.
How can I make two columns in a scrollable flexbox with a frame and central divider line running all the way to the bottom?
Thank you for your help.
Here is the example:
https://jsfiddle.net/soliman/0d0tn22x/2/
<body>
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="header">
<h1>Header</h1>
</div>
<div class="content">
<div class="leftContent"> Column 1
With a lot of lines.
</div>
<div class="divider"></div>
<div class="rightContent"> Column 2
With fewer lines
</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
Footer
</div>
</div>
</body>
CSS:
html,
body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
background: black;
color: red;
}
.wrapper {
display: flex;
/* use the flex model */
height: 100%;
flex-direction: column;
}
.header {
margin: 1em 1em 0 1em;
}
.content {
flex: 1 1 auto;
display: flex;
overflow-y: auto;
position: relative;
min-height: 100px;
margin: 0 1em 0 1em;
border: 6px double red;
}
.content > div {
width: 50%;
padding: 3%;
}
.content > div:first-child {
margin-right: 10px;
}
.footer {
margin: 0 1em 1em 1em;
}
.divider {
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
top: 0%;
bottom: 0%;
border-left: 6px double red;
}
Try this mixed flexbox and CSS table layout. You can set the content area as a table, and the three columns as table cells, so they always be equal height.
There is one issue with the approach is - it only works properly if the content is taller than the container, otherwise the vertical line will stop in the middle. See the other approach at the bottom.
jsFiddle
html,
body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
.wrapper {
height: 100%;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.content {
flex: 1;
overflow-y: auto;
min-height: 100px;
border: 1px solid;
}
.wrapContent {
display: table;
width: 100%;
}
.wrapContent > div {
display: table-cell;
}
.leftContent,
.rightContent {
width: 50%;
}
.divider {
border-left: 1px solid;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="header">
<h1>Header</h1>
</div>
<div class="content">
<div class="wrapContent">
<div class="leftContent">
<div style="height:500px;">Left</div>
</div>
<div class="divider"></div>
<div class="rightContent">
<div style="height:auto;">Right</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
<p>Footer</p>
</div>
</div>
Another way would be using background image for the vertical line, set that to the center of the content container, with repeat-y, the image can be just a square dot. It works well even if the content is shorter than the container.
jsFiddle
html,
body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
.wrapper {
height: 100%;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.content {
flex: 1;
display: flex;
overflow-y: auto;
min-height: 100px;
border: 1px solid;
background: url("http://i.imgur.com/oyQ4xsL.png") center top repeat-y;
background-size: 1px;
}
.leftContent,
.rightContent {
width: 50%;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="header">
<h1>Header</h1>
</div>
<div class="content">
<div class="leftContent">
<div style="height:500px;">left</div>
</div>
<div class="rightContent">
<div style="height:auto;">right</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
<p>Footer</p>
</div>
</div>
I think I just encountered a bug in chrome. By embedding flex columns inside flex rows (or the opposite) I end up with wrong boxes height that make them go out of their parent.
I tried to reproduce that here and it (the failure) "worked" http://jsfiddle.net/b8QvP/1/
html:
<div class="root">
<div class="col">
<div class="row">
<div class="col">
We Are
</div>
<div class="row">
Too Tall
</div>
</div>
<div class="col">
( only when I'm here )
</div>
</div>
</div>
css:
.row, .col {
height: 80%;
width: 80%;
margin: 1em;
display: flex;
font-weight: bold;
color: #fff;
font-family: cursive;
text-align: center;
justify-content: space-around;
}
.root { height: 400px; width: 600px; }
.row { flex-direction: row; }
.col { flex-direction: column; }
div > div { background-color: #CCC; }
div > div > div { background-color: #AAA; }
div > div > div > div { background-color: #888; }
result:
however, I have no problem with firefox.
Have I missed something ? If not, is there any workaround (apart from avoiding flex)? and then how and where could I check if it is already reported / known ?