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CSS

Posted by Dan Curtis
Dan Curtis
19,889 Points

Vertically align objects / paragraphs and nexted divs inside their containing div

I have div's set up to create background colors for sections of my website and then have a container div within each section div.

My question is how do i vertically align text (paragraphs) / objects (images) and nested div's (buttons) within the containing div?

<div class="section-one">
<div class="container">
<p>CONTENT I WANT VERTICALLY ALIGNED</p>
</div>
</div>

<div class="section-one">
<div class="container">
<div class="button">  - CONTENT I WANT VERTICALLY ALIGNED
</div>
</div>
</div>

<div class="section-one">
<div class="container">
<img src="image.jpg">   - CONTENT I WANT VERTICALLY ALIGNED
</div>
</div>
Adam Sackfield
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 Points

Do you mean you want each element inside the container to be vertical and 100% width of the container?

If this is the case you could do

    .button, img { display: block; } /* Just a quick way to do it. But not very specific with the img */

Hoope this helps

1 Answer

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Do you mean something like this?

Imgur

If so here you go: 

.container {
  display: table;
  text-align: center;
}

.copy {
  display: table-cell;
  vertical-align: middle;
}

Here's a working demo on codepen to play with