A serious guide to centering a <div> in CSS – 2024 edition!

Soon, `align-content: center;` (without `display: flex;` or `display: grid;`) may be all that you need.

A serious guide to centering a <div> in CSS – 2024 edition!

Soon, `align-content: center;` (without `display: flex;` or `display: grid;`) may be all that you need.

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/center-a-div/

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All too well 🥲

Especially the *extra-crispy* sub-pixel rendering that came from those 2D transforms 👌

🐵 ← 🙈🙉🙊 → phil.cockfield.net, github.com/philcockfield, db.team →  ƒ( trust / time ) →  ƒ( open-commons ) → ƒ( /sys )

Sometime around 2015 I had to vertically center the output of a WordPress plugin in the viewport without editing the markup.

My solution? Something like this:

```
display: table !important;
height: 100vh !important;

display: table-cell !important;
vertical-align: middle;
```

Good times 👌

This historical difficulty of centring things vertically in CSS was like one of those little "fossil record" hints or clues to where this crazy thing all came from.  

Publishing scientific "documents" at CERN... not application layout out all.

How much cortisol has been spilled failing at the task of centering shit?!

We’ve only waited for this for about 20 years. Finally! 🎉