CSS

Center Anything with CSS Flexbox

Learn to perfectly center any element both horizontally and vertically within its parent container using modern CSS Flexbox properties for clean layouts.

.container {
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center; /* Horizontally center */
    align-items: center;    /* Vertically center */
    min-height: 100vh;      /* Example: make container full viewport height */
    border: 1px solid #ccc;
}

.centered-item {
    padding: 20px;
    background-color: lightblue;
}
How it works: This snippet demonstrates how to perfectly center a single child element within its parent using Flexbox. By setting `display: flex` on the parent, `justify-content: center` centers items along the main axis (horizontally by default), and `align-items: center` centers them along the cross axis (vertically by default).

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