I can't center </a></h1> </div> <div class="grid fw-wrap pb8 mb16 bb bc-black-075"> <div class="grid--cell ws-nowrap mr16 mb8" title="2016-01-12 19:07:53Z"> <span class="fc-light mr2">Asked</span> <time itemprop="dateCreated" datetime="2022-01-02T05:28:06.547" class="fromnow">Jan 02 '22 at 05:28</time> </div> <div class="grid--cell ws-nowrap mr16 mb8"> <span class="fc-light mr2">Active</span> <time class="fromnow" title="2022-01-02T05:58:56.017" datetime="2022-01-02T05:58:56.017">Jan 02 '22 at 05:58</a> </div> <div class="grid--cell ws-nowrap mb8" title="Viewed 258 times"> <span class="fc-light mr2">Viewed</span> 258 times </div> </div> <div id="mainbar" role="main" aria-label="questions and answers"> <div id="question" class="question" data-questionid="70553811" data-ownerid="16212783" data-score="0"> <div class="post-layout"> <div class="votecell post-layout--left"> <div class="js-voting-container grid jc-center fd-column ai-stretch gs4 fc-black-200" data-post-id="70553811"> <button class="js-vote-up-btn grid--cell s-btn s-btnunset c-pointer"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="m0 svg-icon iconArrowUpLg" width="36" height="36" viewBox="0 0 36 36"><path d="M2 26h32L18 10 2 26z"></path></svg></button> <div class="js-vote-count grid--cell fc-black-500 fs-title grid fd-column ai-center" itemprop="upvoteCount" data-value="0">0</div> <button class="js-bookmark-btn s-btn s-btnunset c-pointer py4"> <svg aria-hidden="true" class="svg-icon iconBookmark" width="18" height="18" viewBox="0 0 18 18"><path d="M6 1a2 2 0 00-2 2v14l5-4 5 4V3a2 2 0 00-2-2H6zm3.9 3.83h2.9l-2.35 1.7.9 2.77L9 7.59l-2.35 1.7.9-2.76-2.35-1.7h2.9L9 2.06l.9 2.77z"></path></svg> <div class="js-bookmark-count mt4" data-value=""></div> </button> </div> </div> <div class="postcell post-layout--right"> <div class="s-prose js-post-body" itemprop="text"><p>I try to center my <code><textarea></code> elements in my pet project but I can't find a way to do that. I have tried using the following approaches: <br/></p> <ol> <li>Changing my textarea in CSS:</li> </ol> <pre><code>textarea { display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; } </code></pre> <ol start="2"> <li>Using the text-align property:</li> </ol> <pre><code><div style="text-align: center"><textarea>I am <textarea></textarea></div> </code></pre> <ol start="3"> <li>Using also <code><center></code> tag. Surprisingly, it worked. But I don't like this solution because it is condemned to use.</li> </ol> <p>Down here is link of the picture from my project (I can't post one due I don't have enough reputation). Here you can see I have two blocks: textarea provided by Django framework and standard HTML textarea. Both of them are not centered. (https://i.imgur.com/1AzKrWJ.png)</p> Here is my code: <pre><code><p>Write the reason(s) for refusal:</p> {% render_field form.refusal_reason placeholder="Text..." %} <div style="text-align: center"><textarea>I am <textarea></textarea></div> </code></pre> <p>I have been finding for a solution for a long time but haven't succeed. 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margin-right: auto; </code></pre> <p>Add that to your the css for that textarea.</p> <p>Also - <code><center></code> isnt condemned - it was deprecated in HTML 4.0.1 and removed in HTML 5.</p> <p>Most browsers probably still support it, which is likely why it worked, but you can’t count on it, because eventually it’ll be the same as using a tag called <code><fyuhsgh></code> without defining it first.</p></div> <div class="mb0"> <div class="mt16 grid gs8 gsy fw-wrap jc-end ai-start pt4 mb16"> <div class="grid--cell mr16 fl1 w96"></div> <div class="post-signature grid--cell"> <div class="user-info "> <div class="user-action-time">edited <span title="2022-01-02T05:46:53.983" class="relativetime">Jan 02 '22 at 05:46</span></div> <div class="user-gravatar32"></div> <div class="user-details" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <span class="d-none" itemprop="name">dgo</span> <div class="-flair"></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-signature grid--cell"> <div class="s-user-card s-user-card"> <time class="s-user-card--time" datetime="answered Jan 02 '22 at 05:39">answered Jan 02 '22 at 05:39</time> <a href="../../users/1167442/dgo" class="s-avatar s-avatar32 s-user-card--avatar"> <img class="s-avatar--image" src="../../users/profiles/1167442.webp" data-jdenticon-width="32" data-jdenticon-height="32" data-jdenticon-value="dgo" /> </a> <div class="s-user-card--info"> <a href="../../users/1167442/dgo" class="s-user-card--link">dgo</a> <ul class="s-user-card--awards"> <li class="s-user-card--rep" title="reputation score">3,877</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-blinggold" title="5 gold badges">5</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-blingsilver" title="34 silver badges">34</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-blingbronze" title="47 bronze badges">47</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-layout--right js-post-comments-component"> <div id="comments-70553849" class="comments js-comments-container bt bc-black-075 mt12 " data-post-id="70553849" data-min-length="15"> <ul class="comments-list js-comments-list" data-remaining-comments-count="0" data-canpost="false" data-cansee="true" data-comments-unavailable="false" data-addlink-disabled="true"> <li id="comment-124719819" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="124719819" data-comment-owner-id="16212783" data-comment-score="1"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> <span title="number of 'useful comment' votes received" class="warm">1</span> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment124719819_70553849"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">Jesus, now I have understood a problem when used search in my IDE. The problem was that I had two different 'textarea' properties in my CSS code. My bad. I have seen the answer like yours on StackOverflow previously but I really appreciate your help</span> – <a href="../../users/16212783/anton-morozov" title="33 reputation" class="comment-user owner">Anton Morozov</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/70553811/i-can-t-center-textarea#comment124719819_70553849"><span title="2022-01-02T05:44:35.417 License: CC BY-SA 4.0" class="relativetime-clean">Jan 02 '22 at 05:44</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-124719856" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="124719856" data-comment-owner-id="1167442" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment124719856_70553849"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">@AntonMorozov - just fyi - you can have as many textarea rules as you want. It’s just that they overwrite each other following the cascading rules of CSS - see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_blocks/Cascade_and_inheritance</span> – <a href="../../users/1167442/dgo" title="3,877 reputation" class="comment-user ">dgo</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/70553811/i-can-t-center-textarea#comment124719856_70553849"><span title="2022-01-02T05:50:56.860 License: CC BY-SA 4.0" class="relativetime-clean">Jan 02 '22 at 05:50</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <script src="../../static/js/stack-icons.js"></script> <script src="../../static/js/fromnow.js"></script> </body> </html>