Vertically align text to the bottom of the box? - css

I made box and I set line-height, the text is automatically vertically center. Is there a way or any kind of trick to set the text on the bottom of the box?
div {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background: #eee;
color: #333;
text-align: center;
line-height: 100px;
vertical-align: text-bottom;
}
<div>FoxRox</div>

2020 Update
You can use CSS grid, flexbox or the original method with line-height:
body { display: flex } /* just to prettify */
div {
margin: .5em;
width: 6.25em; height: 6.25em;
background: #eee;
color: #333;
text-align: center
}
.grid {
display: grid;
align-content: end;
}
.flex {
display: flex;
align-items: flex-end;
justify-content: center
}
.lh { line-height: 11.5 /* 6.25*2 - 1.5 */ }
<div class='grid'>Hello</div>
<div class='flex'>Hello</div>
<div class='lh'>Hello</div>
Setting the height of the div and the line-height of the text to the same value, 100px in your case, is a method of vertically centering the text within the div. That's the problem.
The solution is to change line-height to twice the height minus the size of the text and remove useless vertical-align.

Enclose the text in a p tag with display:inline-block. Set vertical-align to the p element.
<div>
<p>FoxRox</p>
</div>​
div {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background: #eee;
color: #333;
text-align: center;
}
p {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: -80px;
}
​
Demo

You could set display to table-cell, try this CSS for example.
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: bottom;
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/Kawwr/

You could check out my answer to https://stackoverflow.com/a/6116514/682480.
Here is the demo for the above answer.
The trick is to use display: table-cell on the outer container. That way you can use the vertical-align: bottom and display: inline-block; on the div.

Related

Issue in aligning text vertically inside a tag

I've researched this and tried all the solutions and yet the text is not vertically aligned.
jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/9a6pdfbt/
html:
<a>משטרה</a>
css:
a {
font-size: 2rem;
border: 2px solid black;
padding: 10px;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
vertical-align: middle;
}
If you use ctrl+shift+c to examine the a tag, you can see that the text is aligned to the bottom of the a tag and not in the exact middle
If you're trying to align your text in the center, vertically, there are multiple ways you can do it.
One way is to use absolute positioning like so (won't work for Bootstrap Columns):
.parent-class {
position: relative;
}
.parent-class a {
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
width: 100%;
transform: translateY(-50%);
}
And in your HTML:
<div class="parent-class">
<a>משטרה</a>
</div>
If you're using Flexbox, all you need is this in your CSS:
a.flexbox {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
}
And in your HTML:
<a class="flexbox">משטרה</a>
Unless you specify a height, the text should always be vertically aligned.
a {
font-size: 2rem;
border: 2px solid black;
padding: 20px;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
vertical-align: middle;
background-color: red;
}
<a>משטרה</a>
If you do specify a height, the flexbox should do it all for you. What would break your code there would be the display: inline-block;. I fixed the Fiddle for you: http://jsfiddle.net/3L5d7awj/

CSS Margin collapsing using margin: auto;

I searched over Stackoverflow though many posts but I didn't found the solution.
I'm trying to align my text vertically, using margin: auto;
It seems there is a margin collapsing problem, if you wanna check this example:
// HTML
<div class="outer">
<div class="inner">Hello</div>
</div>
<div class="outer2">
<div class="inner">Trying to center this text vertically</div>
</div>
// CSS
.inner {
margin: auto 0;
height: 20px;
color: white;
}
.outer {
background-color: red;
}
.outer2 {
background-color: blue;
height: 200px;
}
If you want to play on my code, click here
I don't believe there's a good way to vertically align content using margin: auto 0 like you've set it up. To get the inner divs vertically centered, here's a simple way by modifying .inner:
.inner {
height: 200px;
color: white;
line-height: 200px;
}
The display does the magic. Display: table-cell on inner and display: table on outer div. And finally on inner div you put vertical-align: middle or whatever position that you want.
.inner {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
height: 20px;
color: white;
}
.outer2 {
text-align: center;
background-color: blue;
height: 200px;
display: table;
width: 100%;
}
I would advise you to use flexbox
add this to outer2 class
.outer2 {
background-color: blue;
height: 200px;
display:flex;
align-items:center;
}
And for horizontal align you can use justify-content:center
align-item:center will align items in center of div vertically ,
.outer2 {
display: flex;
justify-content: center, left;
background-color: blue;
height: 200px;
}
you are trying to align the entire inner div by giving margin:auto. You can use text-align: center if you want to align the text. If you need to align the entire div then mention height and width for inner div. I have posted fiddle link please check
http://jsfiddle.net/ajaycoder/n1rz0bts/4/
.inner {
margin: auto ;
color: white;
width:50%;
border: solid 1px red;
height:50%;
}

how could I realize css vertical and horizontal centering?

How could I vertically center a child within a parent ?
And, the width and height of child and parent is fixed, but unknown.
How could I realize it?
<div class="parent">
<div class="child"></div>
</div>
My prefered technique for centering a box both vertically and horizontally requires two containers.
The outher container
should have display: table;
The inner container
should have display: table-cell;
should have vertical-align: middle;
should have text-align: center;
The content box
should have display: inline-block;
should re-adjust the horizontal text-alignment to eg. text-align: left; or text-align: right;, unless you want text to be centered
The elegance of this technique, is that you can add your content to the content box without worrying about its height or width!
Just add your content to the content box.
Demo
body {
margin : 0;
}
.outer-container {
position : absolute;
display: table;
width: 100%; /* This could be ANY width */
height: 100%; /* This could be ANY height */
background: #ccc;
}
.inner-container {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
text-align: center;
}
.centered-content {
display: inline-block;
text-align: left;
background: #fff;
padding : 20px;
border : 1px solid #000;
}
<div class="outer-container">
<div class="inner-container">
<div class="centered-content">
<p>You can put anything here</p>
<p>Yes, really anything!</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
See also this Fiddle!
in css vertical-align:middle is used to align a child vertically centre. But this property is applied to only those elements which havedisplay:inline-block or display:table-cell. So accordingly try to apply display property and you will get vertically centre position of your elements.
You can center things through:
margin: 0 auto;
Try this code
body {
margin: 0;
padding:0;
}
.div1 {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
height: 100vh;
}
.div2 {
width: 50vw;
height: 50vh;
background: #999;
}

Scrollable paragraph having limited height to its parent

I want to make P to be able to take more text than the height can contain, just so the text can be scrolled down to be read. DIV CLASS="others" has the right height I want. (500px)
The problem is, when I use the overflow: scroll function it goes all the way to the bottom of the page.
EDIT: Forgot to mention I want the titles "News" and "Products" to be without the scroll bar.
Thanks.
.others {
position: relative;
vertical-align: middle;
width: 70%;
background-color: #d0d0d0;
height: 500px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 40px 15% 20px 15%;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
}
.others div {
width: 400px;
display: inline-block;
float: left;
margin: 0px 15px;
}
.others #news {
background-color: black;
color: white;
text-align: center;
}
.others #products {
background-color: black;
color: white;
text-align: center;
}
.others a {
color: white;
text-decoration: none !important;
}
.others #newsfeed, #productsfeed {
margin: 0px;
padding: 10px 0px;
background-color: lightgreen;
}
.others p {
margin: 0px;
padding: 10px 10px;
vertical-align: middle;
height: 800px;
overflow: scroll;
}
<DIV CLASS="others">
<DIV ID="news">
<H3 ID="newsfeed">News</H3>
<P>News will come here.</P>
</DIV>
<DIV ID="products">
<H3 ID="productsfeed">Products</H3>
<P>Cool photos here.</P>
</DIV>
</DIV>
As I mentioned in my comment, the issue is caused by specifying an explicit height to the inner paragraphs.
Besides, in order to make the inner paragraphs respect the height of their parents (#news and #products flex items which have the same height of their flex container, the .other) you could change the display type of the parents to flex as well and set their flex-direction to column.
And then give flex: 1; to the paragraphs as follows:
Example Here
#news, #products {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
#news p, #products p {
flex: 1;
overflow: auto; /* up to you */
}
As a side-note: make sure you have included the old (prefixed) syntax of flexbox as well for the sake of browser support. You could use tools like Auto Prefixer to achieve that.
You need a containing div on the paragraphs, then set overflow: scroll; and height: 460px; on that container (or whatever height you need to have it contained within the 500px tall .others block).
You'd also need to make sure your .others div styling doesn't apply to that container - in my example below, I changed that selector to .others > div to only select immediate children of .others. And you should remove the height: 800px; from the inner paragraphs, as mentioned by Hashem Qolami.
jsfiddle example

pseudo class vertical-align

when I delete the vertical-align in div.content:before selector, the text will pull down and can't show completely, so what's the pseudo class do and why this works?
PS: Is there any other way to implement like the demo shows, namely align the text in the middle and text will begin in a new line if it is too long.
here is the demo: http://jsfiddle.net/yougen/8WhNZ/
html:
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="content">
<span>Mix Color Lace Dress</span>
</div>
</div>
css:
div.wrapper {
position: relative;
width:120px;
}
div.content {
width: 120px;
height: 80px;
text-align: center;
background: rgba(51,51,51,0.5);
}
div.content:before {
content: '';
display: inline-block;
height: 100%;
vertical-align: middle;
margin-right: -0.25em;
}
div.content span {
display: inline-block;
width: 80px;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: bold;
vertical-align: middle;
color: white;
}
The before pseudo element is just at the left of your real content. Its function is to have a 100% of the height of the container and precisely has a vertical-align: middle to force every element on the same line (in this case, your span) with the same vertical-align: middle to be shown in the middle of the container, although it hasn't the 100% of the height.
This trick is used when you don't know the height of the element that you want to align in the middle. In other cases you can play with vertical margins, for example, but here we need a pseudoelement with a known height (100% of the container).
Look at that: http://jsfiddle.net/7hUqs/
#element-1 {
height: 50px;
background-color: blue;
vertical-align: middle;
}
#element-2 {
height: 100px;
background-color: yellow;
vertical-align: top;
}
#element-3 {
height: 70px;
background-color: green;
vertical-align: middle;
}
#element-4 {
height: 80px;
background-color: pink;
vertical-align: middle;
}
The vertical-align: middle works with the silbing elements that have the same came of vertical-align. All of them, as a block, will be aligned with the other elements of the line and its vertical alignement (in this case, top). And the height of the line is the maximum height of its elements, not the height of the container. A little weird, but this is the thing.
try this
div.content:before {
content:'';
display: inline;
height: 100%;
margin-top:10px;
margin-right: -0.25em;
}
div.content span {
display: inline;
width: 80px;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: bold;
vertical-align: middle;
color: white;
}
fiddle demo

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