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That doesn't always work... if it doesn't, try:

img {

    display: block;

    margin: 0 auto;

}

Came across this post and it worked for me:

img {

    position: absolute;

    top: 0; bottom:0; left: 0; right:0;

    margin: auto;

}

(Vertical and horizontal alignment)

Another way of doing would be centering an enclosing paragraph:

<p style="text-align:center"><img src="..."/></p>

You can do:

<center><img src="..." /></center>

Actually, the only problem with your code is that the text-align attribute applies to text (yes, images count as text) inside of the tag. You would want to put a span tag around the image and set its style to text-align: center, as so:

span.centerImage {

     text-align: center;

}

<span class="centerImage"><img src="http://placehold.it/60/60" /></span>

The image will be centered. In response to your question, it is the easiest and most foolproof way to center images, as long as you remember to apply the rule to the image's containing span (or div).

Only if you need to support ancient IE browsers.

The modern approach is to do margin: 0 auto in your CSS.

Example here: http://jsfiddle.net/bKRMY/

HTML:

<p>Hello the following image is centered</p>

<p class="pic"><img src="https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/440228301/StackoverflowLogo_reasonably_small.png"/></p>

<p>Did it work?</p>

CSS:

p.pic {

    width: 48px;

    margin: 0 auto;

}

Only issue ihere is that the width of the paragraph must be the same as the width of the image. If you don't put a width on the paragraph, it will not work, because it will assume 100% and your image will be aligned left, unless of course you use text-align:center.

Try out the fiddle and experiment with it if you like.

There are three methods for centering an element that I can suggest.

1. 
   

   using text-align property

   
   
   
   
   
   
   

   
   

       .parent {
   
       text-align: center;
   
   }

   
   

       <div class="parent">
   
       <img src="https://placehold.it/60/60" />
   
   </div>

   
   

   
   
   
   


2. 
   

   using margin property

   
   
   
   
   
   
   

   
   

   img {
   
       display: block;
   
       margin: 0 auto;
   
   }

   
   

   <img src="https://placehold.it/60/60" />

   
   

   
   
   
   


3. 
   

   using position property

   
   
   
   
   
   
   

   
   

   img {
   
       display: block;
   
       position: relative;
   
       left: -50%;
   
   }
   
   .parent {
   
       position: absolute;
   
       left: 50%;
   
   }

   
   

   <div class="parent">
   
       <img src="https://placehold.it/60/60" />
   
   </div>

   
   

   
   
   
   

The first and second methods only work if the parent is at least as wide as the image. When the image is wider than its parent, the image will not stay centered!!!

But:
Third method is a good way for that!

Here's an example:

img {

    display: block;

    position: relative;

    left: -50%;

}

.parent {

    position: absolute;

    left: 50%;

}

<div class="parent">

    <img src="http://imgsv.imaging.nikon.com/lineup/lens/zoom/normalzoom/af-s_dx_18-140mmf_35-56g_ed_vr/img/sample/img_01.jpg" />

</div>

if you are using a class with image then the following will do

class{

    display: block;

    margin: 0 auto;

}

if it is only an image in a specific calss that you want to center align then following will do

class img {

    display: block;

    margin: 0 auto;

}

img{

    display: block;

    margin-right: auto;

    margin-left: auto;      

 }

simply change parent align :)

Try this one on parent properties text-align:center

you can use text-align: center on the parent and change the img to display: inline-block ->it therefore behaves like a text-element and is will be centered if the parent has a width!

img {

    display: inline-block

}

On the container holding image You can use css3 flex box to perfectly center the image inside, both vertically and horizontally.
Let assume You have as image holder:
then as css You have to use

.container {

    display: flex;

    align-items: center;

    justify-content: center;

    height: 100%;

}

And this will make all your content inside this div perfectly centered.

If you want to set the image as background, I've got solution:

.image{

    background-image: url(yourimage.jpg);

    background-position: center;

}

To center a non background image depends on whether you want to display the image as an inline (default behavior) or a block element.

Case of inline

If you want to keep the default behavior of the image's display CSS property, you will need to wrap your image inside an other block element to which you must set text-align: center;

Case of block

If you want to consider the image as a block element of its own, then text-align property does not make a sens, and you should do this instead:

IMG.display {

    display: block;

    margin-left: auto;

    margin-right: auto;

}

The answer to your question:

Is the property text-align: center; a good way to center an image
using CSS?

Yes and no.

• Yes, if the image is the only element inside its wrapper.


• No, in case you have other elements inside the image's wrapper because t all the children elements which are siblings of the image will inherit the text-align property: and may be you would not like this side effect.

References

2. List of inline elements


3. Centering things

I would use a div to center align an image. As in:

<div align="center"><img src="your_image_source"/></div>

One more way to scale - display it:

img {

  width: 60%; /* or required size of image. */

  margin-left: 20% /* or scale it to move image. */

  margin-right: 20% /* doesn't matters much if using left and width */

}

use this to your img css

img{

  margin-right: auto;

  margin-left: auto;

}

display: block with margin: 0 didn't work for me, neither wrapping with a text-align: center element.

This is my solution:

img.center {

    position: absolute;

    transform: translateX(-50%);

    left: 50%;

}

translateX is supported by most browsers

I discovered that if I have an image and some text inside a div, then I can use text-align:center to align the text and the image in one swoop.

HTML:

    <div class="picture-group">

        <h2 class="picture-title">Picture #1</h2>

        <img src="http://lorempixel.com/99/100/" alt="" class="picture-img" />

        <p class="picture-caption">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Temporibus sapiente fuga, quia?</p>

    </div>

CSS:

.picture-group {

  border: 1px solid black;

  width: 25%;

  float: left;

  height: 300px;

  #overflow:scroll;

  padding: 5px;

  text-align:center;

}

CodePen:
https://codepen.io/artforlife/pen/MoBzrL?editors=1100

Sometimes we directly add the content and images on wordpress admin inside the pages. When we insert the images in side the content and want to align that center. Code is display as:

 **<p><img src="https://abcxyz.com/demo/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1.jpg" alt=""></p>**

in that case you can add css like this:

article p img{
margin:0 auto;
display:block;
text-align:center;
float:none;
}

Hope it will help in that situation.

<dev class="col-sm-8" style="text-align: center;"><img src="{{URL('image/car-trouble-with-clipping-path.jpg')}}" ></dev>

i think this is the way for center image in laravel frame work.

The simplest solution I found was to add this to my img-element:

style="display:block; margin: auto;"

Seems I don't need to add "0" before the "auto" as suggested by others. Maybe that is the proper way, but it works well enough for my purposes without the "0" as well. At least on latest FireFox and Chrome and Edge.