Center glyphicon content - css

Question

I using Google Chrome Inspector and if you select the before pseudo of the glyphicon you will see that there is empty space at the right. How I can center the glyphicon?
I tried to set text align but it doesn't work.
<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-plus"></span>
<style>.glyphicon { font-size: 120px; }</style>
jsFiddle
Updated link jsFiddle 2

Answer 1

I gave letter spacing for pseudo element and it did the trick. I tried changing the font-size and I see that white space is not appearing.
.glyphicon:before{
letter-spacing: -0.085em;
}
Working fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/MasoomS/1z79r22y/

Answer 2

I believe the root problem here is with the SVGs that the icon font was built from. I've built icon fonts before from SVGs and saw this exact same behavior. If the symbol wasn't centered within its SVG viewbox, you'd get a glyph that was off-center like you've observed.
Developing a code-based solution would get super messy, because you'd have to individually account for each glyph that isn't centered, and then your offsets would have to be relative to the size of the icon so the offsets scale with the font-size of the icon. It's certainly do-able, but it seems like the sort of thing that would be a headache to maintain.
I would recommend one of the following:
Accept the glyphicon set for what it is (a free icon font) and live with its imperfections
Look for another icon font that doesn't have this same issue--be willing to pay for a license
Create your own icon font so you can ensure that all glyphs are centered

Answer 3

Almis Hi there. Your demo code is only using just the span holding the glyphicon it has no Width to center within.
As soon as you do something like this it will center.
<div class="text-center">
<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-plus"></span>
</div>
<br>
<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-plus col-xs-12 text-center"></span>
Here is a Fiddle.

Answer 4

Just add the class my-style-icon to the icon and add this to your CSS:
.my-style-icon {
font-size: 120px;
display: block;
text-align:center;
}

Answer 5

vertical-align: middle; margin: 0 auto; should do the trick for you.

Answer 6

Hello Almis.
.glyphicon {
font-size: 120px;
display: block;
text-align: center;
}
Just replace the .glyphicon class with above css code.
Enjoy..

Answer 7

As you can see its clearly a problem by the author adding some white space, the only why to fix this is by setting the width manually.

Answer 8

You can get rid of the empty space on the right of the glyph by playing with the letter-spacing attribute:
.glyphicon {
font-size: 120px;
letter-spacing: -9px;
}

Answer 9

I normally use max-width (and width, if I want all icons in a list to have the same size) to deal with such issues.
As per your jsFiddle:
max-width:222px;
See here.

Answer 10

The reason this can't be fixed in any other way other than a hack is because the glyphicon itself isn't centered inside it's own container, meaning when it was designed in it's matrix it wasn't fully centered.
You will have to 'hack' it with shivs stated above (letter spacing, negative margin, etc) but it's resolution dependent.
However to VERTICALLY center it you can remove the padding, and use line-height equal to your container's height

Answer 11

Use font-awesome, it's '+' is perfectly centered, with no kerning problems. And use display:flex on parent, in combination with margin:auto on child (i.e. icon). It results in a perfectly alignment.
Here is the jsfiddle(http://jsfiddle.net/Rpad/sps01dsd/13/)
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.4.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
HTML:
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div id="add" class="col-xs-6 col-sm-6 col-md-3 col-lg-3">
<i class="fa fa-plus"></i>
</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS:
.fa-plus {
margin: auto;
font-size: 10em;
}
#add {
border: 5px dashed black;
border-radius: 25px;
display: flex;
}