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CSS CSS Basics (2014) The Box Model Display Values

Kamil Zak
Kamil Zak
5,104 Points
Posted by Kamil Zak
Kamil Zak
5,104 Points

Why sometimes is text-align not working?

It's like something is blocking it, links we added class to didn't move to the center of the page. I tried text-align but didn't work, margin-left works just fine.

Ezra Siton
Ezra Siton
12,644 Points
Ezra Siton
Ezra Siton
12,644 Points

Don't "MIX-UP" - text-align: center - is a CSS property. This is not like saying "center to the page".

It always works (like in word or any other text editor) - but sometimes you have CSS conflicts or (most of the time) you trying to align an element to the right (but you declare this as inline!! or inline block) - and this is an issue (endless tricks to solve this - flex/float/position/and so on) **H1-6, P are block level elements

h1{
    text-align: right; 
    display: inline;    
/* No change */
}

2 Answers

Joseph Grant
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Joseph Grant
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Joseph Grant
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Joseph Grant
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Text-align will center an object within the box you create for it. Try adding a margin that fills the page horizontally, and then centering the text within that. Im using the <p> tag as an example:

p {
  margin: 0 auto;
  text-align: center;
}
Kamil Zak
Kamil Zak
5,104 Points
Kamil Zak
Kamil Zak
5,104 Points

Thank you, Joseph and Ezra. Now I understand it, my CSS was a mess and I didn't see the conflict.