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CSS Adding MediaElement.js

Botos Claudia
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My video is not centering after applying the div videoWrapper

My video is not centering and I have followed the exact steps as in the video and , also in Google Chrome. It doesn't seem to work either. Please Help!

4 Answers

Brodey Newman
Brodey Newman
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Brodey Newman
Brodey Newman
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Hey Popa,

What is the CSS for the videoWrapper div?

A little trick I like to do is to wrap the video in a div like below:

<div class="video-wrap">
     <video width="320" height="240" controls>
          <source src="movie.mp4" type="video/mp4">
          <source src="movie.ogg" type="video/ogg">
               Your browser does not support the video tag.
     </video>
</div>

And add some css to the 'video-wrap' div.

.video-wrap {
     display: table;
     margin: auto;
}
Marco Wright
Marco Wright
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Marco Wright
Marco Wright
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You can also use flex box to center the video.

.videocontainer {
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;
    width: 100%;
}
Karan Nahar
Karan Nahar
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Karan Nahar
Karan Nahar
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Hey! here is a more simpler version of centering your player. When you inspect your HTML, you will see a div with a class mejs__container applied to video and audio tags. Media element makes both video and audio div tags. You can use this mejs__container class to center your player.

.mejs__container {
   display: block;
   margin: 0 auto;
}
Ran Wang
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You should actually target .mejs_player and .mejs_player and use margin: 0 auto; to center the 2 elements.