Today, you’ll learn 3 ways to center a div or any other HTML element.
For this example, we’ll use the same HTML structure for all 3 CSS methods of centering the div.
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Base HTML
<!-- index.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Center a div</title>
</head>
<body>
<div></div> <!-- center a div -->
</body>
</html>First method using the “display: grid”
/* style.css */
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
body {
background-color: #020202;
width: 100vw;
height: 100vh;
display: grid;
place-items: center;
}
div {
background-color: deeppink;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
}Second method using the “display: flex”
/* style.css */
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
body {
background-color: #020202;
width: 100vw;
height: 100vh;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
}
div {
background-color: deeppink;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
}Third method using the “transform: translate”
/* style.css */
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
body {
background-color: #020202;
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}
div {
background-color: deeppink;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
}