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Learn HTML-CSS: How To Vertically Center Text with CSS?

Vertically centering text with CSS is not easy when compared to aligning text horizontally. There are different cases to handle when it comes to vertically centering text with CSS. Let’s go through them one by one.

Vertically aligning a single line of text

To vertically align a single line of text you need to use line-height property.

<html lang="en">

   <head>

       <meta charset="utf-8">

       <title>Hello World</title>

   </head>

   <body>

       <div id="vertical">

Hello, Livecoding!

</div>

   </body>

</html>

The CSS to achieve it is as follows:

#vertical {

 height: 90px;

 line-height: 90px;

 text-align: center;

 border: 5px solid green;

}

Handling multiple lines of text

To handle multiple lines of text, you need to use the <span> tag to your advantage. So, how do you do it? Let’s take a look at the following code:

<html lang="en">

   <head>

       <meta charset="utf-8">

       <title>Hello World</title>

   </head>

   <body>

       <div id="vertical">

         <span>Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.</span>

</div>

   </body>

</html>

CSS

#vertical {

 height: 150px;

 line-height: 150px;



 text-align: center;

 border: 5px solid green;

}

span {

 display: inline-block;

 vertical-align: middle;

 line-height: normal;

}

So, how does it all work?

First, the <span> tag sets the height of <div> tag using the line-height property.
The <span> also becomes an inline-block with the use of the vertical-align: middle.
With <span> now an inline-block, it can be set at middle by using vertical-align: middle which works great for inline-block elements.
After that, the line-height is set to normal, enabling the inner content to flow according to the size of the div height and line-height property.

The second method could be a bit complex. However, it works great on all browsers. Do you have anything to add to the tutorial? If yes, then don’t forget to comment below.

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Dr. Michael J. Garbade

I, Dr. Michael J. Garbade is the co-founder of the Education Ecosystem (aka LiveEdu), ex-Amazon, GE, Rebate Networks, Y-combinator. Python, Django, and DevOps Engineer. Serial Entrepreneur. Experienced in raising venture funding. I speak English and German as mother tongues. I have a Masters in Business Administration and Physics, and a Ph.D. in Venture Capital Financing. Currently, I am the Project Lead on the community project -Nationalcoronalvirus Hotline I write subject matter expert technical and business articles in leading blogs like Opensource.com, Dzone.com, Cybrary, Businessinsider, Entrepreneur.com, TechinAsia, Coindesk, and Cointelegraph. I am a frequent speaker and panelist at tech and blockchain conferences around the globe. I serve as a start-up mentor at Axel Springer Accelerator, NY Edtech Accelerator, Seedstars, and Learnlaunch Accelerator. I love hackathons and often serve as a technical judge on hackathon panels.

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Vivek Dubey says:

December 28, 2016 at 10:51 am

This is one of the common questions I have seen with HTML5. How to center X using CSS. It can be div or a text. Just read the how to center div tag and now this. Thanks so much!