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CSS finally adds vertical centering in 2024 (build-your-own.org)
submitted 2 months ago by otter@lemmy.ca to c/programming@programming.dev
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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because we already have a way to center text horizontally...

[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yes but my grief was with the naming... why not call it vertical-center? Just "center" is very confusing to me because it does not include horizontal.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

Because of consistency with the rest of the box model