How to center a fontawesome icon inside a div element - css

Question

I have a div with width: 180px; and height: 180px;.
How can I center a fontawesome icon horizontally and vertically inside the container?
Note: i may also add text below the icon
<div style="width:180px; height:180px; float:left;">
<i class="fa fa-search fa-4x"></i>
</div>
should look something like this:

Answer 1

Try this:
.centered{
position:relative;
top:50%;
left:50%;
transform:translate(-50%,-50%)
}
.container{
width:100px;
height:100px;
}
On mobile.

Answer 2

You can do it like this
#search{
background: gray;
width:180px;
height:180px;
float:left;
line-height: 180px;
text-align: center;
vertical-align: bottom;
}
#search > p {
margin-top: -155px;
}
Working example http://jsfiddle.net/kasperFranz/h91p8w4e/3/ (using icon instead of fa in the example, but shouldn't affect the result.)

Answer 3

I'm probably too late here, but it's a common question, so here's a simple working idea, the interesting side of it is that it adapts to the container size:
span{
margin: auto;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
position: absolute;
text-align: center;
width: 15px;
height: 15px;
display: block;
}

Answer 4

Asuming to my comment, here is a JSFIDDLE
Without setting relative or absolute
html
<div class="myDiv">
<div class="content_wrapper">
<!--i class="fa fa-search fa-4x">test</i-->
<i class="icon-search icon-4x"></i><br />
<span class="myText">Search</span>
</div>
</div>
css
.myDiv{
width: 180px;
height: 180px;
float: left;
background: #ccc;
text-align: center;
display: table;
}
.content_wrapper{
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
.myText{
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 20px;
}

Answer 5

CSS
/* This parent can be any width and height */
.block {
text-align: center;
background:#ccc;
margin-bottom:10px;
}
/* The ghost, nudged to maintain perfect centering */
.block:before {
content: '';
display: inline-block;
height: 100%;
vertical-align: middle;
margin-right: -0.25em; /* Adjusts for spacing */
}
/* The element to be centered, can
also be of any width and height */
.centered {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
width: 300px;
}
HTML
<div class="block" style="height: 300px;">
<div class="centered">
<h1>Some text</h1>
<p>p1</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="block" style="height: 200px;">
<div class="centered">
<h1>Some text</h1>
<p>p2</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="block" style="height: 600px;">
<div class="centered">
<h1>Some text</h1>
<p>p3</p>
</div>
</div>
DEMO
Update 1:
DEMO

Answer 6

I know it's a bit late and you probably already figured this out.
I was able to achieve what you were looking for by wrapping the icon and text in a div then adding padding to that.
See the attached pen.
http://codepen.io/ForTheJim/pen/YPxveR
<p data-height="268" data-theme-id="0" data-slug-hash="YPxveR" data-default-tab="result" data-user="ForTheJim" class='codepen'>See the Pen <a href='http://codepen.io/ForTheJim/pen/YPxveR/'>Centering Icon Question</a> by Jim (<a href='http://codepen.io/ForTheJim'>#ForTheJim</a>) on <a href='http://codepen.io'>CodePen</a>.</p>
<script async src="//assets.codepen.io/assets/embed/ei.js"></script>

Answer 7

Short way just add display: grid; place-items: center; to your div and your ready to go.
like this:
<div style="width:180px; height:180px; display: grid; place-items: center;">
<i class="las la-user-circle"></i>
</div>