How to center a <p> element inside a <div> container?

I want my <p> element to be at the center of a container <div>, as in perfectly centered -- the top, bottom, left and right margins split the spaces equally.

How can I achieve that?

div {
  width: 300px;
  height: 100px;
}
p {
  position: absolute;
  top: auto;
}

<div>
  <p>I want this paragraph to be at the center, but it's not.</p>
</div>

You dont need absolute positioning Use

p {
 text-align: center;
line-height: 100px;

}

And adjust at will...

If text exceeds width and goes more than one line

In that case the adjust you can do is to include the display property in your rules as follows;

(I added a background for a better view of the example)

div
{
  width:300px;
  height:100px;  
  display: table; 
  background:#ccddcc;  
}


p {
  text-align:center; 
  vertical-align: middle;
  display: table-cell;   
}

Play with it in this JBin

To get left/right centering, then applying text-align: center to the div and margin: auto to the p.

For vertical positioning you should make sure you understand the different ways of doing so, this is a commonly asked problem: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79461/vertical-alignment-of-elements-in-a-div

♣you should do these steps :

1. the mother Element should be positioned(for EXP you can give it position:relative;)
2. the child Element should have positioned "Absolute" and values should set like this: top:0;buttom:0;right:0;left:0; (to be middle vertically)
3. for the child Element you should set "margin : auto" (to be middle vertically)
4. the child and mother Element should have "height"and"width" value
5. for mother Element => text-align:center (to be middle horizontally)

♣♣simply here is the summery of those 5 steps:

.mother_Element {
    position : relative;
    height : 20%;
    width : 5%;
    text-align : center
    }
.child_Element {
    height : 1.2 em;
    width : 5%;
    margin : auto;
    position : absolute;
    top:0;
    bottom:0;
    left:0;
    right:0;
    }

You only need to add text-align: center to your <div>

In your case also remove both styles that you added to your <p>.

Check out the demo here: <http://jsfiddle.net/76uGE/3/>

Good Luck

Centered and middled content ?

Do it this way :

<table style="width:100%">
    <tr>
        <td valign="middle" align="center">Table once ruled centering</td>
    </tr>
</table>

I fiddled it here

Ha, let me guess .. you want DIVs ..

just make your first outter DIV behave like a table-cell then style it with vertical align:middle;

<div>
    <p>I want this paragraph to be at the center, but I can't.</p>
</div>

div {
    width:500px;
    height:100px;
    background-color:aqua;
    text-align:center;
    /*  there it is */
    display:table-cell;
    vertical-align:middle;
}

jsfiddle.net/9Mk64/

on the p element, add 3 styling rules.

.myCenteredPElement{
    margin-left:  auto;
    margin-right: auto;
    text-align: center;
}

This solution works fine for all major browsers, except IE. So keep that in mind.

In this example, basicaly I use positioning, horizontal and vertical transform for the UI element to center it.

        .container {
            /* set the the position to relative */
            position: relative;
            width: 30rem;
            height: 20rem;
            background-color: #2196F3;
        }


        .paragh {
            /* set the the position to absolute */
            position: absolute;
            /* set the the position of the helper container into the middle of its space */
            top: 50%;
            left: 50%;
            font-size: 30px;
            /* make sure padding and margin do not disturb the calculation of the center point */
            padding: 0;
            margin: 0;
            /* using centers for the transform */
            transform-origin: center center;
            /* calling calc() function for the calculation to move left and up the element from the center point */
            transform: translateX(calc((100% / 2) * (-1))) translateY(calc((100% / 2) * (-1)));
        }

<div class="container">
    <p class="paragh">Text</p>
</div>

I hope this help.

this is how I do it:

<div class="container">
    <p class="paragraph">I want this paragraph to be at the center, but it's not.</p>
</div>

.container {
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;
    align-items: center;
    width: 300px;
    height: 100px;
    background-color: lightgreen;
}
.paragraph {
    width: 250px;
    background-color: lightyellow;
}

you can add text-align: center; to the paragraph if you want text alignment to be center