Vincent De Oliveira has written an epic post that details pretty much everything you might ever want to know about the line-height and vertical-align properties. If you’ve ever had trouble aligning things next to text or wondered why two fonts …
Centering things in CSS is the poster child of CSS complaining. Why does it have to be so hard? They jeer. I think the issue isn’t that it’s difficult to do, but in that there so many different ways of …
When it comes to centering things in web design, the more information you have about the element being centered and its parent element, the easier it is. So what if you don’t know anything? It’s still kinda doable.…
The vertical-align property in CSS controls how elements set next to each other on a line are lined up.
img {
vertical-align: middle;
}In order for this to work, the elements need to be set along a baseline. As …
html {
width:100%;
height:100%;
background:url(logo.png) center center no-repeat;
}img {
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
width: 500px;
height: 500px;
margin-top: -250px; /* Half the height */
margin-left: -250px; /* Half If you only have a single word or a single line of text, there is a clever way to vertically center it in a block with CSS. You set the line-height of that text to be equal to the height…
CSS has a property called vertical align. It can be a bit confusing when you first learn about it, so I thought we could help explain what it is for and some use cases.
The basic usage is like …
