CSS Template: text-align: center;

📝 Use Case

This template is used when you want to center text or headings horizontally. It's useful for centering titles, buttons, or any guidance message in the page layout.

📘 Explanation

The text-align property with the value center horizontally aligns text within its parent element. This template uses the class .text-center to apply it easily.

✅ Demo

This text is centered.

📄 Code (Snippet)

<style>
  .text-center {
    text-align: center;
  }
</style>

📦 Code (Full HTML)

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <title>Center Alignment Demo</title>
  <style>
    .text-center {
      text-align: center;
    }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <p class="text-center">This text is centered.</p>
</body>
</html>

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🧩 Applications and Usage

text-align: center; is a simple yet highly versatile CSS property. It can be used not only for basic text centering but also in various other scenarios.

📌 Centering Multiple Elements at Once

Applying .text-center to a parent element centers all inline elements and text within it. For example, all <p>, <span>, and <a> tags inside a <div class="text-center"> will be centrally aligned at once.

🎯 Aligning Buttons and Navigation

If you want to center navigation menus or groups of buttons, applying text-align: center; to their container is effective. Note that this works for inline or inline-block buttons (such as <button> or <a> elements with display: inline-block;), where the parent's text alignment affects them.

⚠️ Caution

This property affects inline elements and text but does not move block-level elements themselves to the center. To center block elements, you need to combine it with margin: 0 auto;.

Also, in responsive design, center alignment works well on wide screens, but on narrower screens like mobile devices, left alignment might improve readability. Using media queries to switch alignment based on screen size is a good practice.