CSS- Vertically center text in a div

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to vertically center text in a div element using CSS.

Consider, we have the following text in div HTML:

<div class="container">
  <h1>Welcome to the blog</h1>
</div>

To center a text vertically inside a div, add the display:flex and align-items: center to the div CSS class.

“align-items: center” centers the text vertically.

Here is an example:

<div class="container">
  <h1>Welcome to the blog</h1>
</div>

CSS:

.container{
    display: flex;
    align-items: center;
    height: 100%;
}

or we can add the inline styles to div element using the style attribute in HTML.

<div style="display: flex;justify-content: center; height: 100%;" >
   <h1>Welcome to the blog</h1>
</div>

Centering the text vertically in div using absolute position

We can use the absolute positioning in css to center the text vertically in a div element.

Here is an example:

<div class="container">
     <h1>Welcome to the blog</h1>
</div>

.container{
   position:absolute;
   top:50%;
   transform:translateY(-50%);
}

1. In the example above we added position:absolute to the div element, so the element breaks out from the normal document flow and positioned to its relative parent (eg: body or parent element).

2. The top:50% moves the element 50% down from its position.

3. The translateY(-50%) moves the element 50% up from it’s position.