I have a some absolutely positioned divs with two lines of text, an h2 and a p. I'm trying to get the text to be: centered vertically within the absolutely positioned div, right aligned, and there be a linebreak between the h2 and p tag.
The absolutely positioned divs are contained within a parent so I thought I could use flexbox to solve this problem, but turns out it's harder than expected. I've given the parent display:flex and align-items:center which vertically centers them. But then my h2 and p are on the same line, there's no linebreak.
So then I used flex-direction: column which created a linebreak, but then the text is no longer centered vertically. If I use align-items:flex-end and flex-direction:column the text will be right aligned and there will be a linebreak between the h2 and p, but then they are not centered vertically.
margin-right:auto can supposedly right align items, but combined with align-items:center and flex-direction:column, it doesn't work. float:right also doesn't work.
My markup looks like this:
<div class = "col-sm-12">
<div class = "row overlay-container">
<img src = "_img/[email protected]" class = "img-responsive grid-image" alt = "top-right@4x image" />
<div class = "overlay overlay-2">
<h2>Recent Work</h2>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor</p>
</div> <!-- /overlay -->
</div> <!-- /row -->
</div> <!-- /top right -->
where overlay is the absolutely positioned div inside the overlay-container. The overlay is a box positioned over a portion of the image. The display:flex and other properties mentioned above are on the overlay class.
It seems that no matter what I try, I can only get two out of the three conditions to work. Using flexbox is not a requirement, but I thought it would make it easy to vertically center the text. Can anyone help?
Here is a sample how to center using display: flex
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body {
margin: 0;
}
.overlay {
width: 300px;
margin-top: 5vh;
height: 90vh;
border: 1px solid;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
}<div class = "overlay overlay-2">
<h2>Recent Work</h2>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor</p>
</div> <!-- /overlay -->Updated
In some situations one might need to use auto margin's instead, as the default behavior when centering with justify-content (when using flex-direction: column) is, when content doesn't fit, it will overflow at both top and bottom.
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body {
margin: 0;
}
.overlay {
width: 300px;
margin-top: 5vh;
height: 90vh;
border: 1px solid;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
/*justify-content: center; removed */
align-items: center;
overflow: auto; /* scroll when overflowed */
}
.overlay h2 {
margin-top: auto; /* push to the bottom */
}
.overlay p {
margin-bottom: auto; /* push to the top */
}<div class = "overlay overlay-2">
<h2>Recent Work</h2>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor</p>
</div> <!-- /overlay -->Updated 2
Here with a 3rd item in the middle, what will scroll when not fit.
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body {
margin: 0;
}
.overlay {
width: 300px;
margin-top: 5vh;
height: 90vh;
border: 1px solid;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
align-items: center;
}
.overlay p:first-of-type {
overflow: auto; /* scroll when overflowed */
}
.overlay h2 {
margin-top: auto; /* push to the bottom */
}
.overlay p:last-of-type {
margin-bottom: auto; /* push to the top */
}<div class = "overlay overlay-2">
<h2>Recent Work</h2>
<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor<br>
Lorem ipsum dolor<br>
Lorem ipsum dolor<br>
Lorem ipsum dolor<br>
Lorem ipsum dolor<br>
Lorem ipsum dolor<br>
Lorem ipsum dolor<br>
</p>
<p>Maybe a link for more</p>
</div> <!-- /overlay -->Another sample: