Forgive me for asking such a simple question, I'm new to both HTML and CSS. Is there an easy way to center a textarea? I figured I'd just try using
textarea{
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
but it (obviously?) didn't work.
5 Answers
The margins won't affect the textarea because it is not a block level element, but you can make it display block if you like:
textarea {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
By default, textareas are display: inline, which is why you can put them side-by-side easily, and why the text-align: center answers work too.
The textarea can also be centered by putting it inside a flexbox container like this:
<style>
div.justified {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
}
</style>
<div class="justified">
<textarea>Textarea</textarea>
</div>
Set text-align of the element's parent to center, like this:
HTML:
<div>
<textarea></textarea>
<div>
CSS:
div { text-align: center; }
Here is an example:
add display: block; to your textarea styles
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "">
<html xmlns="">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style>#container {width:100%; text-align:center;}</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<textarea name="mytextarea" cols="10" rows="10"></textarea>
</div>
</body>
</html>
you wrap your textarea with a div, give it width and then you align it with text-align:center;
This should do the trick. It works for me here in 2020:
textarea {
margin: auto;
display: block;
}
