Center a div in CSS [closed]

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The text-align: center; only centers the element’s inline contents, not the element itself.

If it is a block element (a div is), you need to set margin: 0 auto;, else if it is an inline element, you need to set the text-align: center; on its parent element instead.

The margin: 0 auto; will set top and bottom margin to 0 and left and right margin to auto (of the same size) so that it automagically puts itself in the center. This only works if the block element in question has a known width (either fixed or relative), else it cannot figure where to start and end.

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