How do I center an anchor element in CSS?

I just want to have my anchor in the middle of the screen horizontally, how might I do this?

<a href="http://www.example.com">example</a>

Add the text-align css property to its parent style attribute

Eg:

<div style="text-align:center">
  <a href="http://www.example.com">example</a>​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
</div>​

Or using a class (recommended)

<div class="my-class">
  <a href="http://www.example.com">example</a>​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
</div>​

.my-class {
  text-align: center;
}

---

See below working example:

.my-class { text-align: center; background:green; width:400px; padding:15px; } .my-class a{text-decoration:none; color:#fff;}

<!--EXAMPLE-ONE-->
<div style="text-align:center; border:solid 1px #000; padding:15px;">
  <a href="http://www.example.com">example</a>​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
</div>​

<!--EXAMPLE-TWO-->
<div class="my-class">
  <a href="http://www.example.com">example</a>​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
</div>​

---

Q: Why doesn't the text-align style get applied to the a element instead of the div?

A: The text-align style describes how inline content is aligned within a block element. In this case the div is an block element and it's inline content is the a. To further explore this consider how little sense it would make to apply the text-align style to the a element when it is accompanied by more text

<div>
  Plain text is inline content. 
  <a href="http://www.example.com" style="text-align: center">example</a> 
  <span>Spans are also inline content</span>
</div>

Even though threre are line breaks here all the contents of div are inline content and therefore will produce something like:

> Plain text is inline content. example Spans are also inline content

It doesnt' make much sense as to how "example" in this case would be displayed if the text-align property were to be applied it it.

write like this:

<div class="parent">
 <a href="http://www.example.com">example</a>
</div>

CSS

.parent{
  text-align:center
}

Two options, that have different uses:

HTML:

<a class="example" href="http://www.example.com">example</a>

CSS:

.example { text-align: center; }

Or:

.example { display:block; width:100px; margin:0 auto;}

Try

margin: 0 auto;
display:table

Hope that helps somebody out.

try to wrap a div around and add these styles to the div:

 width: 100%; 
 text-align:center;

<span style="text-align:center; display:block;">
<a href="http://news.awaissoft.com">Awaissoft</a>
</span>

By default an anchor is rendered inline, so set text-align: center; on its nearest ancestor that renders as a block.

I think you can't do that with inline elements like anchor, span. But to make it work you have to set the display to block.

<a href="http://www.example.com" style="text-align:center;display:block;">example</a>

There are many ways.

<!-- Probably the most common: -->
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="...">Link</a></div>

<!-- Getting crafty... -->
<a href="..." style="display: block; text-align: center;">Link</a></div>

There are probably other ways too, but these three are probably the most common.

You can try this code:

/**code starts here**/

a.class_name { display : block;text-align : center; }

style="margin:0 auto; width:auto;" Try that.

css cannot be directly applied for the alignment of the anchor tag. The css (text-align:center;) should be applied to the parent div/element for the alignment effect to take place on the anchor tag.

It is very Simple Anchor(a) is a inline element, it means width of inline element is equal to how much text width is there that much.so if you want horizontal center so you need to convert inline to block element, then add text align center.

<a style="display:block;text-align:center" href="http://www.example.com">example</a>

Just put it between center tags:

<center>><Your text here>></center>