CSS
Stacking Elements Vertically and Centering with Flexbox
Discover how to efficiently stack multiple elements vertically within a container while perfectly centering them both horizontally and vertically using Flexbox properties for clean layouts.
.flex-container-column {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
justify-content: center; /* Centers items along the main axis (vertical) */
align-items: center; /* Centers items along the cross axis (horizontal) */
min-height: 200px; /* Example height */
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
.flex-item {
background-color: lightcoral;
padding: 10px 20px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
text-align: center;
}
.flex-item:last-child {
margin-bottom: 0;
}
How it works: This snippet demonstrates how to arrange multiple items in a vertical stack and perfectly center them within their container using Flexbox. `display: flex` establishes a flex container. `flex-direction: column` directs flex items to stack vertically. `justify-content: center` centers items along the main axis (which is vertical in a column-direction flex container), and `align-items: center` centers them along the cross axis (horizontally).