Achieving perfect alignment is crucial for creating visually balanced and professional websites. CodeDesign.ai offers intuitive tools that make center aligning elements on your project canvas effortless. Whether you're adding headers, paragraphs, or buttons, our platform ensures your elements are perfectly centered, enhancing both the aesthetic appeal and user experience of your designs.
Method 1: Centering Elements Using Layout Settings
Centering elements using the conventional layout settings is straightforward. Follow these steps to achieve a balanced layout:
1. Add Your Elements
Start by navigating to the Elements section of your project canvas. Drop in the heading, paragraph, and button that you want to center. By default, these elements will align to the left side of the canvas.
2. Access Layout Settings
Click on the heading to open its layout settings. Here, you'll find options to adjust the position of the element.
3. Adjust Position to Auto
In the layout settings, change the left and right position values to "auto". This adjustment will center the heading within the canvas. Repeat the same steps for the paragraph and button to align them centrally.
4. Handling Nested Elements
If your button is contained within another div for versatility, ensure you adjust the settings for the parent div instead of the button itself. Click on the blue label to navigate to the parent div and set the left and right positions to "auto". This ensures that all nested elements are centered appropriately.
With these adjustments, your heading, paragraph, and button are now centered using the layout settings.
Method 2 : Center Aligning Elements Using Flexbox
For more advanced alignment, CodeDesign.ai supports Flexbox settings, offering greater control and flexibility. The interesting thing about this method is that once you set things on the parent element, all the elements dropped will automatically be center aligned, eliminating the need to work on elements individually.
We're starting off from the same scenario as method one with a heading, paragraph and button element dropped to the section. By default, the elements will be aligned to the left. Let's see how we can use Flexbox settings to collectively align all elements.
1. Select the Parent Element
Click on the parent element that contains the elements you want to center.
2. Setting Display property to Flex
In the layout settings, set the Display property to "flex". This is a crucial step for utilizing Flexbox alignment. Flexbox settings will be active only if you are setting the display property of the parent element to 'Flex'.
3. Configure Flexbox Alignment Options
Under the Layout settings, you'll find the 'Alignment (Flex box)' settings. Click to expand and then change the following properties
Direction: Select the top-to-bottom option to stack elements vertically.
Alignment: Choose the "center-align" option to center the elements within the parent container.
With Flexbox settings applied, any new elements you add to this section will automatically align to the center. For example, dragging and dropping an additional paragraph will now center-align automatically, maintaining a consistent and balanced layout.
Video Guide : Centre Aligning Elements on CodeDesign Builder
If you prefer a video guide, We've put together a detailed one going through the same workflow on youtube.
Center aligning elements on your CodeDesign.ai project canvas is simple and effective, whether you prefer using traditional layout settings or the versatile Flexbox options. By mastering these alignment tools, you can enhance the visual appeal and professionalism of your website designs. If you have any questions or need further assistance, our support team is available through comments, support chats, or the CodeDesign forum.