- vertical centering within a parent container.
- or, vertical centering relative to adjacent elements.
1 — Vertical Center Using Auto Margins
One way to vertically center is to use my-auto. This will center the element within it’s flexbox container (The Bootstrap 4 .row is display:flex). For example, h-100 makes the row full height, and my-auto will vertically center the col-sm-12 column.
<div class="row h-100">
<div class="col-sm-12 my-auto">
<div class="card card-block w-25">Card</div>
</div>
</div>my-auto represents margins on the vertical y-axis, and is equivalent to:
margin-top: auto;
margin-bottom: auto;2 — Vertical Center with Flexbox
Since the Bootstrap 4 .row class is now display:flex you can simply use the new align-self-center flexbox utility on any column to vertically center it:
<div class=”row”>
<div class=”col-6 align-self-center”>
<div class=”card card-block”>
Center
</div>
</div>
<div class=”col-6">
<div class=”card card-inverse card-danger”>
Taller
</div>
</div>
</div>or, use align-items-center on the entire .row to vertically center align all col-* (columns) in the row…
<div class=”row align-items-center”>
<div class=”col-6”>
<div class=”card card-block”>
Center
</div>
</div>
<div class=”col-6”>
<div class=”card card-inverse card-danger”>
Taller
</div>
</div>
</div>3 — Vertical Center Using Display Utils
Bootstrap 4 has now has display utils that are used a wrapper for the CSS display propery such asdisplay:block, display:inline, display:table-cell, display:none, etc.. These can be used with the vertical alignment utils to align inline, inline-block or table cell elements.
<div class="row h-50">
<div class="col-sm-12 h-100 d-table">
<div class="card card-block d-table-cell align-middle">
I am groot
</div>
</div>
</div>More Vertical Center Examples
Bootstrap 4 Vertical Center in Equal Height Cards
Bootstrap 4 Vertical Centering with Cards
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