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CSS

Posted by eslam said
eslam said
Courses Plus Student 6,734 Points

Vertical align

I want to know how to professionally vertical align elements here the code and my question :

    <header>
        <div id="header-content">
            <h1>Dada</h1>
            <p>Art movement</p>
        </div>
    </header>

i centered the text vertically like that :

     padding-top:20%;

it worked but it`s kinda messy i feel like its not the proper way to vertically align elements, specially that when i tried to use 50% it wasnt 50 at all, i also dont know why.

Sargon Gabriel
Sargon Gabriel
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you want to vertically align the whole div ?

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Unsubscribed User
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In that case this might be able to help you.

eslam said
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eslam said
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eslam said
eslam said
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i want to center elements inside the div, i want the h1 and h2 to be centered vertically and horizontally, horinzontal align is not a problem since i can use text-align:center but what about the vertical align ?

eslam said
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eslam said
eslam said
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is my question that hard ?

Unsubscribed User
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Unsubscribed User
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Both the h1 and p elements are centered vertically, as the div element is only as tall as the content within it demands it to be. Look at this codepen to see what I mean.

eslam said
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eslam said
eslam said
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yea but if the header height is more then the content itself the content will stay the same, it will not be centered vertically

eslam said
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eslam said
eslam said
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thank you mike i used the following :

  display:flex;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;