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Darren Kynaston
Courses Plus Student 15,610 Pointstable cell over-spilling parent element
Hi all,
I want to horizontally and vertically center some text within a div element. I have chosen the table, table-cell method as the absolute, top:0; right:0; bottom:0; left:0; margin: auto system didn't work in this instance. I have saved out the code in Code-pen http://codepen.io/anon/pen/FzpGC for you to take a look at.
As you can see in the example the table width is spilling out of it's parent element - therefore the text it contains will not be truly centered in its parent element.
Is there a fix or have I forgotten something???
1 Answer
Darren Kynaston
Courses Plus Student 15,610 PointsI've sorted it now. Text string was to long and the break points were the problem pushing the table and table-cell elements outside of the parent.