Padding not working on my image with text overlay

Question

What I am trying to achieve:

Images should be centered with equal padding left and right.

Text within images should be centered with equal padding left and right, top and down.

Top padding/margin is currently centering the text such that it becomes hidden if the screen is too small.

$(document).ready(function() {

  $('.gallery-item').hover(function() {
    $(this).find('.img-title').fadeIn(300);
  }, function() {
    $(this).find('.img-title').fadeOut(100);
  });

});

    .gallery
{
 width: 25em;
}
.gallery-item
{
 float: left;
 height: auto;
 max-width: -moz-available;
 position: relative;
 width: 100%;
}
.gallery-item img
{
 width: 100%;
}
.img-title
{
 background: #000;
 background: rgba(0,0,0,.9);
 height: 100%;
 margin: 0;
 max-width: -moz-available;
 position: absolute;
 text-align: center;
 top: 0;
 width: 100%;
}
.img-title p
{
 color: #fff;
 font-size: 22px;
 padding-left: 30px;
 padding-right: 30px;
 position: absolute;
 text-align: center;
 top: 33%;
}

<div class="wrapper clearfix">
  <figure class="gallery-item">
    <img src='https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/37B5/production/_89716241_thinkstockphotos-523060154.jpg' alt='image'>
    <figcaption class="img-title">
      <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p>
    </figcaption>
  </figure>
    <figure class="gallery-item">
    <img src='https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/37B5/production/_89716241_thinkstockphotos-523060154.jpg' alt='image'>
    <figcaption class="img-title">
      <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p>
    </figcaption>
  </figure>
</div>

<script
     src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.min.js"
     integrity="sha256-9/aliU8dGd2tb6OSsuzixeV4y/faTqgFtohetphbbj0="
     crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

I need responsive scaling across all devices. Any optimizations welcome.

EDIT: https://codepen.io/AnonymousCaptain/pen/WNQyPZG I have managed to create proper padding on the image and overlay by adding "max-width: -moz-available;" to the css of .img-title and .gallery-item.

I then added padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 30px;

to .img-title.

Only thing missing is vertical alignment of text.

Have a look at this : https://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/center.en.html — Jeremy Thille, May 12 '20 at 13:55
Unless I'm mistaken, this seems to boil down to the classic question: [How to center an element horizontally and vertically](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19461521/how-to-center-an-element-horizontally-and-vertically) — DBS, May 12 '20 at 13:56
Please see my edit. max-width: -moz-available; was a quick fix for the margin of the image and overlay. I imagine this isn't a solution across all browsers? — Robotica, May 12 '20 at 14:32

lakshitha madushan · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-12T15:36:45.523

You need to remove the default element padding and margins. add below lines top of the CSS style sheet.

* {
    box-sizing: border-box;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

And update .ima-title p

.img-title p {
    color: #fff;
    font-size: 22px;
    padding-left: 30px;
    padding-right: 30px;
    position: absolute;
    text-align: center;
    top: 50%;  /* *********** */
    transform: translateY(-50%); /* *********** */
}

with top: 50%; transform: translateY(-50%); we can alingn text vertically.

Padding not working on my image with text overlay

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