If you spend a lot of time on a single framework, you will transcend and become a sort of frontend diety, growing multiple extra limbs allowing you to type in CSS classes faster than any mere mortal
Yeah that works if you wanna center a box of content it relative to the parent container, either horizontally or vertically. For other situations we’ve got different tools
Okay but how do u center a div in 2025
Ask the browser nicely while using please and thanks.
Depends if you’re centering the div or the things in the div. Which has probably been the main issue since CSS was invented.
If using plain CSS, usually it’s enough to set
width
appropriately, andmargin-left
andmargin-right
toauto
.If using a Modern Frontend/CSS Framework, then may God have mercy on your poor soul.
(Seriously I just started a new project with TailwindCSS and I’m so confused. But not entirely desperate yet.)
So what is the point of these frameworks if they make it harder?
If you spend a lot of time on a single framework, you will transcend and become a sort of frontend diety, growing multiple extra limbs allowing you to type in CSS classes faster than any mere mortal
Until everyone moves over to the next thing and you start from 0 again. Web dev is a nightmare.
I’m doing a small hobby project (a ladder/ranking system for playing beer sports with my community), and I tried out Tailwind.
I gave up and loaded Bootstrap instead, but I will probably end up just writing all the CSS myself.
Seems so silly to have 15 CSS classes on a single DOM element…
While centering div, you add one to 2023.
If you define what you mean by centering I’ll give you a straight answer.
Vertically? Horizontally? Center the text or the entire box? Compared to the viewport, the parent container or the entire page?
“Centering” isn’t as straight forward as you’d think, and what you actually want usually depends on the situation.
Nah, just flex them boxes
Yeah that works if you wanna center a box of content it relative to the parent container, either horizontally or vertically. For other situations we’ve got different tools
You count half the pixels and put them in a margin-left