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Kalidh Mohamed
5,995 PointsHow does "text-align: center" property at around 5:42 make the image center? Isn't the text align property for text?
I'm so confuse...
2 Answers
rydavim
18,813 PointsThe text-align property describes how inline content is aligned inside it's parent element. Text is one example of an inline element, but not the only one. Images have a default display value of inline-block, so you can use text-align to center them.
Margins are the most common way to horizontally center block elements. You can use this technique on images by setting their display value to block.
Hopefully that helps clarify things. Happy coding! :)
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 PointsNo it can work for any element but as the name suggests its primarily for text. :)
It's more common though to center an image with automatic left and right margins so it's central to it's parent element.
position: relative;
margin: 0 auto;
In the context of jquery it's probably the simplest way to pass CSS through a jQuery method.