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Posted by John Issa
John Issa
1,798 Points

Centering text within an image

Hello everyone,

I'm creating a sales dashboard for my company and I'm encountering an issue when trying to center text onto an image. I'm able to get the text close to the center but not close enough to avoid the odd-looking alignment.

I've included my code below and would gladly appreciate any guidance.

Thank you in advance!

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
    <title></title>

<style type="text/css">

        @font-face {
    font-family: 'Whitney';
    }

    table.center {
    margin-left:auto;
    margin-right:auto;
  }


    .leaderboard-cell{
      padding: 2px 60px;
      vertical-align: middle;
      color: #01C0B1;
      font-size: 140%;
      font-family: "Whitney";
      position: center;

    }

    h1{
      display: block;
      font-family: "Whitney";
      text-align: center;
      font-size: 50px;
      color: #00bfb3;
    }


    .leaderboard-count1{
      background: url(https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dwy-testing/Asset+8.png) no-repeat;
      background-position:center;
      background-size: 150px;
    }


  </style>

</head>

<body class="leaderboard-background">
<body>

<h1 align="justify">Sales <br/> Scorecard</h1>

  <div class="leaderboard-list">
    <table class="center">
      <tbody>
        <tr class="leaderboard-item">
        <td class="leaderboard-cell leaderboard-rank"> <img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dwy-testing/Asset+10.png" alt="" style="width:120px; height:auto;"></td>
        <td class="leaderboard-cell leaderboard-team">First Place</td>

        <td class="leaderboard-cell leaderboard-count1"><h2>25</h2></td>

  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

You weren't specific, but I'm guessing that you want to center the number "25" in the circle.

The main issue is that in the image with the circle, the circle is not centered to begin with. I've reproduced the original image below with side borders to illustrate this:

bar circle bar

I was able to compensate for the offset image by using this setting in the CSS:

  background-position: -4px center;