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CSS

Richard Contreras
Richard Contreras
7,026 Points
Posted by Richard Contreras
Richard Contreras
7,026 Points

How do you horizontally center multiple lines of text in a flexbox?

Please see this codepen: https://codepen.io/pdxcoder/pen/vROdvm

I basically want a table of text using CSS grid and I want all the text to be centered horizontally and vertically. Using justify-content and align-items works when my text only takes up a single line, but when it runs over to multiple lines the horizontal centering is lost.

1 Answer

Samuel Zhen
Samuel Zhen
33,571 Points
Samuel Zhen
Samuel Zhen
33,571 Points

Any reason why you want to set the display of column to flex? You can just do this

.column {
  text-align: center;
}

When you set the column to flex and justify-content to center, it only centers the p element not the text inside it. If you want to keep the flex display then do this

.column {
  border: 1px solid #333;
  display: flex;
}

p {
  flex: 1; /* This make p take the full width of column*/
  text-align: center;
}
Richard Contreras
Richard Contreras
7,026 Points
Richard Contreras
Richard Contreras
7,026 Points

Thanks, that is very helpful!

I think I do need to keep the flex display because I want the text to be vertically centered in the grid item as well.