The main idea behind the flex layout is to give the container the ability to alter its items’ width/height (and order) to best fill the available space (mostly to accommodate to all kind of display devices and screen sizes). The margin-auto property does not have any effects on inline-level elements.The Flexbox Layout (Flexible Box) module ( a W3C Candidate Recommendation as of October 2017) aims at providing a more efficient way to lay out, align and distribute space among items in a container, even when their size is unknown and/or dynamic (thus the word “flex”). If you need to use margin: auto, there are 2 additional properties you must use as well. However, using margin: auto alone will not work for images. However, this method only works if the image is inside a block-level container such as a : Īnother way to center an image is by using the margin: auto property (for left-margin and right-margin). The first way to center an image horizontally is using the text-align property.

Let's begin with centering an image horizontally by using 3 different CSS properties. Here's a video version if you want to check it out: Centering an Image Horizontally If you're not familiar with those properties, I recommend checking out those posts before reading this article. I've gone over the CSS Position and Display properties in my previous post. Here's an interactive scrim about how to center an image vertically and horizontally:

So in this post, I will be showing some of the most common ways to center an image both vertically and horizontally using different CSS properties.

Handling responsiveness and alignment is particularly tough, especially centering an image in the middle of the page. Many developers struggle while working with images.

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