Questions tagged [center]
The center tag in HTML causes its contents to be centered within the parent element. It is deprecated and should no longer be used.
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How to align a <div> to the middle (horizontally/width) of the page [duplicate]
I have a div tag with width set to 800 pixels. When the browser width is greater than 800 pixels, it shouldn't stretch the div, but it should bring it to the middle of the page.
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How do I center floated elements?
I'm implementing pagination, and it needs to be centered. The problem is that the links need to be displayed as block, so they need to be floated. But then, text-align: center; doesn't work on them. I ...
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Center Plot title in ggplot2
This simple code (and all my scripts from this morning) has started giving me an off center title in ggplot2:
Ubuntu version: 16.04
R studio version: Version 0.99.896
R version: 3.3.2
GGPLOT2 ...
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Bootstrap 3 modal vertical position center
This is a two part question:
How can you position the modal vertically in the center when you don't know the exact height of the modal?
Is it possible to have the modal centered and have overflow:...
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How to vertically center a <span> inside a div? [duplicate]
The code:
<div
id="theMainDiv"
style="
border:solid 1px gray;
cursor:text;
width:400px;
padding:0px;"
>
<span
id="tag1_outer"
style="
background:#...
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How to center absolute div horizontally using CSS? [duplicate]
I've a div and want it to be centered horizontally - although I'm giving it margin:0 auto; it's not centered...
.container {
position: absolute;
top: 15px;
z-index: 2;
width:40%;
...
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Why is the <center> tag deprecated in HTML?
I am just curious as to why the <center> tag in HTML was deprecated.
The <center> was a simple way of quickly center-aligning blocks of text and images by encapsulating the container in a ...
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Flutter : Vertically center column
How to vertically center a column in Flutter? I have used widget "new Center". I have used widget "new Center", but it does not vertically center my column ? Any ideas would be helpful....
@override
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Center a DIV horizontally and vertically [duplicate]
Is there a way to CENTER A DIV vertically and horizontally but, and that is important, that the content will not be cut when the window is smaller than the content The div must have a background ...
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Center aligning a fixed position div
I'm trying to get a div that has position:fixed center aligned on my page.
I've always been able to do it with absolutely positioned divs using this "hack"
left: 50%;
width: 400px;
margin-...
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align text center with android
I know it sounds easy. I need to put a text in center, but when the text is too long it needs to go below, but still align in the center of my xml.
Here's my code :
<LinearLayout
android:...
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How to center a (background) image within a div?
Is it possible to center a background image in a div? I have tried just about everything - but no success:
<div id="doit">
Lorem Ipsum ...
</div>
//CSS
#doit { background-image: url(...
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How do I center a window on the screen in C# & WinForms?
I need a way to center the current window on the screen.
So for example, if a user pushes a button, I want the window to center itself on the screen.
I know you can use the startposition property, but ...
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How to position a div in the middle of the screen when the page is bigger than the screen
Hi I'm using something similiar to the following to get a div positioned in the middle of the screen:
<style type="text/css">
#mydiv {
position:absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
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Centering floating divs within another div
I've searched other questions and, while this problem seems similar to a couple of others, nothing I've seen so far seems to address the issue that I'm having.
I have a div which contains a number of ...
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Make floating child visible outside an overflow:hidden parent
In CSS the overflow:hidden is set on parent containers in order to allow it to expand with the height of their floating children.
But it also has another interesting feature when combined with ...
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CSS: Center block, but align contents to the left
I want a whole block to be centered in its parent, but I want the contents of the block to be left aligned.
Examples serve best
On this page :
http://yaml-online-parser.appspot.com/?yaml=%23+...
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Button Center CSS
Usual CSS centering issue, just not working for me, the problem is that I don't know the finished width px
I have a div for the entire nav and then each button inside, they dont center anymore when ...
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Center an item with position: relative
I've got a menu that appears on hover over an absolutely positioned div. All of the menu items have to be relatively positioned because the absolutely div will appear multiple times on a page and will ...
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RelativeLayout center vertical
I want to make a list row layout. This layout has a imageview in the most left, a textview right next to the imageview, and a imageview in the most right. I want all of them are center vertical.
<...
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Center fixed div with dynamic width (CSS)
I have a div that will have this CSS:
#some_kind_of_popup
{
position: fixed;
top: 100px;
min-height: 300px;
width: 90%;
max-width: 900px;
}
Now, how can i make this div centered? ...
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Can overflow text be centered?
When I specify text-align:center for an element with a width that is greater than the width of the text, the text is centered within the content box of the element (as expected).
When I specify text-...
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Center Contents of Bootstrap row container
I have the code below and I'd like to center the "well" elements of the outer "row" div. I've tried various approaches such as text-align: center (which just centers the text and not the inner DIV ...
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Android: How to rotate a bitmap on a center point
I've been looking for over a day for a solution to this problem but nothing helps, even the answers here. Documentation doesn't explain anything too.
I am simply trying to get a rotation in the ...
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How to put table in the center of the page using CSS?
I am using the following code. How to put this table in the center of the page using CSS?
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="...
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Center form submit buttons HTML / CSS
I'm having troubles centering my HTML form submit buttons in CSS.
Right now I'm using:
<input value="Search" title="Search" type="submit" id="btn_s">
<input value="I'm Feeling Lucky"...
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How do you center your main window in WPF?
I have a WPF application and I need to know how to center the wain window programatically (not in XAML).
I need to be able to do this both at startup and in response to certain user events. It has to ...
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How to align a div inside td element using CSS class
It is working with this way
<td align="center">
But I want to use CSS class.
I defined class like this way but no luck
td
{
vertical-align: middle;
text-align: center;
margin-...
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Center text in a Toast
I was wondering if there was a way to display all text in a Toast to be centered. For instance, I have a Toast that has 2 lines of text in it. For purely aesthetic reasons, I would like the text to ...
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How can I horizontally center a button element in a div element?
I don't want to add CSS to my div element (e.g. <div style="text-align: center;">).
I only want to add CSS code to the button element.
<div>
<button>Button</button>
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CSS: Position loading indicator in the center of the screen
How can I position my loading indicator in the center of the screen. Currently I'm using a little placeholder and it seems to work fine. However, when I scroll down, the loading indicator stays right ...
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centering a div between one that's floated right and one that's floated left
I have a page in which a header consists of three divs - one that's floated to the left, one that's floated to the right, and one that's in between them. I'd like for that central div to be centered, ...
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Centering No Captcha reCaptcha
After a few hours of research and trial and error, I was finally able to add the new Google No Capatcha re Capatcha to my form and get it working, but for some reason, it won't center. Any ideas?
<...
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How to center a textarea using CSS?
Forgive me for asking such a simple question, I'm new to both HTML and CSS.
Is there an easy way to center a textarea? I figured I'd just try using
textarea{
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: ...
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How to center things - display:block/inline-block
When centering things in html and css, I find two approaches - either applying on the element :
display:block;
margin:0 auto;
or using:
display:inline-block;
text-align:center; (on the parent ...
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Is there anyway to make an EditText start typing at the top left corner of the EditText?
I have an EditText with the property:
android:minLines="3"
However, when I start typing, it types in the middle of the EditText.
Is there any way to get this to start typing at the top left of the ...
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Show Dialog box at center of its parent
It's been a mess to show a DialogBox at the center of its parent form. Here is a method to show a dialog.
I am positioning its parent to center but not able to center the DialogBox
private void ...
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Using Markdown, how do I center an image and its caption?
I want to end up with:
Hello there!
<image>
This is an image
Hi!
Where the image and the text This is an image are centered on the page. How do I accomplish this with Markdown?
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Centering a table wider than the text column
I'm including a table in my LaTeX document and the centering works fine if the table isn't wider than the text column above it, but when the table is wider, the left side of the table sticks to the ...
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Android Fragment does not respect match_parent as height
Sorry for the huge code dump, but I'm truly lost.
MyActivity.java onCreate:
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_singlepane_empty);
mFragment = new PlacesFragment();
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Can you help me center a <ul> element with CSS?
I've been puzzling over something which ought to be very easy indeed, but after a fruitless three hours I've not yet solved it:
A friend asked me to fix the template of his WordPress website so that ...
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CSS: Won't center div with max-width
I've got the following page structure:
<div class="main-container">
<div class="content">
<table>
</table>
</div>
</div>
I want the ...
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HTML: Making a link lead to the anchor centered in the middle of the page
I have a link to an anchor on my html page. When the link is clicked it causes the page to scroll to the anchor so that the anchor is at the very top of the visible part of the page. How can I make ...
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Setting of ImageView's gravity to the center in android programmatically
I want to set the gravity of an array of Imageviews,ImageIcons[i] to the center with the following code,
ImageIcons[i] = new ImageView(this);
ImageIcons[i].setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(...
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center image in div with overflow hidden
I have an image of 400px and a div that is smaller (the width is not always 300px as in my example). I want to center the image in the div, and if there is an overflow, hide it.
Note: I must keep the ...
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How to align title at center of ActionBar in default theme(Theme.Holo.Light)
I searched a lot but can not find a way, How can I set then title at center of ActionBar instead of left aligned. I used below code to set the title at center :
ViewGroup decorView= (ViewGroup) this....
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Center a div in CSS [duplicate]
I'm trying to center a <div> horizontally.
I already have text-align: center; on the <div> itself, but it does not work.
Any suggestions?
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How to center elements in the BoxLayout using center of the element?
I use outputPanel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(outputPanel, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS)); and then I add elements (for example JLabels, JButtons) to the outputPanel. For example: outputPanel.add(submitButton);.
I ...
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TextView in the center of the screen [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I center text horizontally and vertical in a TextView in Android?
I have a RelativeLayout (before it was a LinerLayout), that occupies all the screen and I want to put ...
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How to find the element's x center coordinates and related window offset
i would like to retrieve the element offset starting from his own x center coordinates.
how can i do it?
Actually i can find the window offset of an element but it retrieves the coordinates from the ...
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