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CSS CSS Layout Basics CSS Layout Project Creating and Styling the Layout Containers

Posted by Zhenghao He
Zhenghao He
Courses Plus Student 2,389 Points

how could he use 'text-align' property to center the block elements?

at 2:22 he write .name a, .main-nav a { text-align: center; display: block; padding: 10px 15px; }

I looked up at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-align it says text-align does not control the alignment of block elements So how did he use text-align: center; given that he set tag a elements to be block?

1 Answer

Kieran Barker
Kieran Barker
15,028 Points
Kieran Barker
Kieran Barker
15,028 Points

You can use it to center-align the text inside a block-level element.

If you read carefully, the MDN Web Docs say “The text-align CSS property describes how inline content like text is aligned in its parent block element”.

The <a> element was defined as a block-level element, but the text inside it is still inline.

Zhenghao He
Zhenghao He
Courses Plus Student 2,389 Points

thanks man!