How to vertically center text within its container

Whether in a button, or a text element, I see no way to center the text that you type *vertically* in the container. I'm not talking about within the box element. I mean just the text element itself. If I size out a text area and start typing in it, I should be able to say center it vertically. That's what I'm looking for anyway. Help much appreciated.

Text elements cannot be vertically centered as they are not containers. However, you can fake that somewhat by making the line-height very large. But this means if you have text spanning two lines it would be very far apart though

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How do I get text to center vertically in a cell?

It centres all the text, no matter how many lines. I test the solution.
What have you done? Explain what you are getting and exactly what it is you have done and the result you wanted. We can't see your screen.
Peter

Can't vertically center text within a table cell with a picture next to it

I have a table and each cell has a picture in it (which was "cut" from another part of the document and "pasted" into the cells). Next to it, I typed a few words. I want the words to be centered vertically within the cell. However, everytime I click on the vertical centering in the inspector, it moves the picture and the text remains at the very bottom of the cell. The text is "tied" to the picture. I've tried everything... highlighting the text, same thing. Can't figure it out!! Is there any way to do this without inserting text boxes??

Vertical align works on text within text boxes and within table cells.
I have just checked this using a table with:
*1st cell* Inline Picture with caption under. Cell sizes to fit
*2nd cell* Same as first, picture scaled down. Text and image centre vertically.
*3rd cell* Caption only, vertically centred.
It works and I have wrap turn off on the image, before I pasted it in.
On rereading the O.P.'s post it seems to be saying contradictory things. That the text is "tied to the picture" which is what you would expect of inline graphics and that the text is stuck in the bottom the cell.
Without a picture and a better description of the problem we are none the wiser.
I am just guessing but perhaps the O.P. has the image and Inline graphic on the same line and can't understand why the bottom of the text and the bottom of the image are aligned.
If this is the case it is a misunderstanding of what inline graphic means. The image acts just like a character in the text and sits on the text baseline, it is not an independent object.
It is possible to shift text next to the image or the image itself by selecting either and altering:
+Inspector > Text > More > Baseline Shift+
But frankly you would be better separating the 2 and putting the text in the cell to the left or right of the image.
Peter

How to vertically center InlineGraphicElements?

Hi all,
I'm trying to extend the InlineGraphic TLF example to insert images of varying sizes, but vertically center them in the text Flow. I'm having trouble figuring out the correct parameters to properly center the element. I've been playing with alignmentBaseline & dominantBaseline w/ IDEOGRAPHIC_CENTER, but I don't get very promising results. Here's a screen shot of where I'm at:
Notice the blue box(added in post), the text MESSUP is being placed on the same line as the Lorem Ipsum text(in the string, it's Donec MESSUP). Also, the selection box (Ctrl+A) shows breaks in the text layout. It seems like the boxes should be shifted up. This may be as designed, if so, how do I compact/shift the boxes up?
For contrast, this is what it looks like without the centering:
Source:
package
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.text.engine.TextBaseline;
    import flashx.textLayout.container.ContainerController;
    import flashx.textLayout.edit.EditManager;
    import flashx.textLayout.elements.InlineGraphicElement;
    import flashx.textLayout.elements.InlineGraphicElementStatus;
    import flashx.textLayout.elements.ParagraphElement;
    import flashx.textLayout.elements.SpanElement;
    import flashx.textLayout.elements.TextFlow;
    import flashx.textLayout.events.StatusChangeEvent;
    import flashx.undo.UndoManager;
    [SWF(width="760", height="590", backgroundColor="0xCCCCCC", frameRate="30")]
    public class inliner extends Sprite
        protected var textFlow:TextFlow;
        public function inliner():void
            var elements:Array =
                "Lorem ipsum dolor", null,
                "sit amet, consectetur", null,
                "adipiscing elit. Mauris eu odio nibh. Duis", null,
                "scelerisque mattis risus, vitae viverra", null,
                "ipsum vehicula non.", null,
                "Donec MESSUP"];
            textFlow = new TextFlow();
            textFlow.fontSize = 34;
            textFlow.backgroundColor = 0xFFFFFF;
            textFlow.backgroundAlpha = 1;
            var imageSize:uint = 20;
            var paragraphElement:ParagraphElement = new ParagraphElement();
            textFlow.addChild(paragraphElement);
            for(var i:uint = 0; i < elements.length; ++i)
                var obj:* = elements[i];
                if(obj is String)
                    var string:String = obj as String;
                    var span:SpanElement = new SpanElement();
                    span.text = string;
                    paragraphElement.addChild(span);
                else if(obj == null)
                    var inlineGraphic:InlineGraphicElement = new InlineGraphicElement();
                    inlineGraphic.width = imageSize;
                    inlineGraphic.height = imageSize;
                    imageSize += 20;
                    inlineGraphic.source = "http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/images/flashplayer_100x100.jpg";
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                    inlineGraphic.dominantBaseline = TextBaseline.IDEOGRAPHIC_CENTER;
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            // The actualWidth and actualHeight are zero.
            refresh();
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Cannot, really.
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>

How do you center text in a JOptionPane?

How do you center text in a JOptionPane?
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"File(s) Moved Successfully","Finished", JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);

Instead of adding the string "File(s)...", create a
JPanel. Add your text as a JLabel to this JPanel
using the appropriate LayoutManager. Now add the
JPanel in place of "File(s)..." in the
showMesageDialog call.Or just use a JLabel, set its alignment to center and add the label instead of the string.

Vertically Center Text in a Text Box

Just switched form Acrobt 6 to Acrobat Pro 9 and can't figure out how to verically center text in a text box. When I select the text it gives me the properties bar shown below:
Seems like a really dumb question because I know I could in Acrobat 6 and I don't know why they would take away that feature, but I can't find it anwywhere.

The only time the More button is enabled is when I have the Text Box selected, and then the options pertain to the line weight, etc. of the box and not the text. When I select the text the More button is not enabled and the only options properties are the ones shown above.
I made the Text Box by going to "Tools", "Comment & Markup", "Text Box Tool". I have not seen anything that says Multiline and when I searched help it only talked about multiline fields in forms.
Thanks for the quick responses.

How do I center text in a JTextArea?

Easy question! how can I center text being fed into a JTextArea?
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the reply. You seem to know swing pretty well. Is there a way to change the color of my actual font in a JText Area?
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How do I center text in Final cut Pro?

Hi, does anyone know how to directly center text with more than one line of text in Final Cut Pro?
If I have more than one line it doesn't seem to center properly. I've tried wireframe (which is inaccurate), center values (which doesn't work) and Boris 3D (which does the job but the space between letters isn't accurate so I need to try an alternative method).
Any ideas?

In Title 3D you use the Position X/Y button to adjust the height. The spacing between the letters in Title 3D can be adjusted both in tracking and in kerning by placing the cursor between a letter pair. Title 3D is perhaps one of the most accurate and precise text positioning titlers available in any software.

- How to vertically center a div?

How to vertically center a div? :-S

Cannot, really.
Read this -
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How to Vertically center dynamic text?

I am trying to vertically center and wrap text within a Text div. I have figured out how to center text if it is a single line, but the text that I am using will be diffrent for each user depending on what language they view the page in. How can i make sure that text is always vertically centred and wrapped regardless of how long it is?

Could you do this with css? There is a css attribute display:table that allows you to set the paragraph attribute to align to themiddle of a region. See: http://css-tricks.com/vertically-center-multi-lined-text/
Hope that helps.

How to center text within image

If you go to http://www.terwax.com/bf2.html , youll see text in the left side. It took me enough time to center the image. Now that i created ap tag within div, i was able to put text but in every browser its different. Below is the code. Please help me find easy way that can center the text within image.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Terwax - Battlefield</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
     background-color: #333;
     height:inherit;
     width:inherit;
     margin-left: auto;
     margin-right: auto;
     text-align: center;
#apDiv1 {
     position:absolute;
     width:753px;
     height:110px;
     z-index:1;
     left: 286px;
     top: 174px;
     overflow: visible;
     text-justify: auto;
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>
    <img src="images/import.png" alt="back" width="1288" height="992" align="middle" />
    <div id="apDiv1">Thanks for coming to the site. I am currently working on it. This isn't finished yet and a lot of graphics to come! Keep checking back and if you don't like or like something, make sure to hit me an email at [email protected] .</div>
</div>
<p> </p>
</body>
</html>

Terwax.com wrote:
That code didn't fix the problem
It just moved the text right to the bottom of page. Last time i did this, the text was static. It couldn't be highlighted.
I know there are tutorials, but i just need help with this as i can finish the website. I am doing all the tutorials currently (lynda.com), but its a long way from now and will be happy if someone can help me get the text in the grey box rather than falling out of it.
Try the code below in IE9. It should work if the browser is backwards compliant. I'll be amzed if it doesn't. Unfortunately I don't have IE9 available to test in. Didn't even know it was available. Is it a beta version of the browser which maybe hasn't been fully tested yet?
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Terwax - Battlefield</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
    background-color: #333;
#imageWrapper {
position: relative;
width: 1288px;
margin: 0 auto;
#apDiv1 {
    position:absolute;
    width:753px;
    left: 270px;
    top: 174px;
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="imageWrapper">
    <img src="images/import.png" alt="back" width="1288" height="992" align="middle" />
    <div id="apDiv1">Thanks for coming to the site. I am currently working on it. This isn't finished yet and a lot of graphics to come! Keep checking back and if you don't like or like something, make sure to hit me an email at [email protected] .</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Vertically center text on a page-document wide

Anyone know how to center text vertically on FrameMaker pages? (There is a way to do this, right?)
Thanks!

Nope, not document wide. You could do it manually on a page by page basis or if the content is suffciently small that you can make each page a fixed height row of a table you could use the Table middle setting for the paragraphs.
With a tool like Framescript, you could set up a procedure that would determine the bottom gap from the last line of text to the end of the text frame and then split difference to push down the top of line text, but this requires a bit of coding.

How do I center text w/o CSS?

Just upgraded from an old version. I just need to exit some text in HTML only, no need for CSS.
How do I turn off CSS editing and just have good old html editing? This is for websites that i put my info that is straight html, no css.
I can't even find out how to make text centered! Sure, I can go and manually enter the code, but where are the left, center, right icons for simple text editing, the controls are overwhelming for us non-geeks.

These options on now found on the CSS properties box. If you want to make shorter work for yourself, begin each project with a basic.css containing styles you use often.
Example CSS:
.left {text-align:left}
.center {text-align: center}
.right {text-align: right}
HTML
<p class="center">Here is some centered text</p>
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Is there a way to vertically center text / elements?

Please help on this

Hi Gupevieira,
This would depend as what and where you exactly want to align page items. Examples being:
1) To align the content on the Muse canvas, you may refer to the following link:
How do you center objects and or a website vertically and horizontally in Muse?
2) To fix certain content on the browser window, you may center it as in the above scenario, and use the Pin feature to fix it in the browser.
3) To align some text vertically in a text frame, you may refer to:
Need Help with Text Alignment
4) To align with reference to other content, you may you the Align panel (Window->Align)
Additionally , you can use padding/gutter value for spacing in respect to alignment in spacing panel, similarly Align panel can be used to align objects on page accordingly.
If this is not the answer you are looking for then please provide more details as what you are trying to achieve , screenshots would help.
Regards
Sonam

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Why cant I do a vertical text alignment to center text in a table cell that has been resized

Hi tundra,
In Pages '09, use the Text Tab in Inspector. Select the cell(s) and
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