Rugg

# March 8, 2013 at 1:54 am

Hello,

I’m having issues with what appears to be an extremely simple problem. I just can’t seem to wrap my head around this for some reason. Essentially…Im trying to position two centered divs, side by side in a wrapper. I’ve been able to center the divs, but they are stacking instead of sitting next to each other. I’ve tried using float:left and display:inline-block…neither solving the issue. If anyone can suggest a solution for this…I’d be ever so grateful.

Code sample: http://jsfiddle.net/TZj6B/6/

Thank You

CodeGraphics

# March 8, 2013 at 2:06 am

Check this[ pen](http://codepen.io/alex13/pen/dJKcu “”).

noahgelman

# March 8, 2013 at 2:18 am

Here is a better version of @CodeGraphics code but without the extra html and unnecessary css. You dont need so much code for a simple thing.

Simply put, if you have a div, and the elements inside are set to “display:inline-block” then you can just use “text-align:center” to center them inside. Then reset the “text-align:left” inside the box.

[http://cdpn.io/dJKcu](http://cdpn.io/dJKcu “Code”)

Merri

# March 8, 2013 at 2:56 am

I forked it further (to clean up and to simplify it): http://codepen.io/Merri/pen/vHJtf

Hugo Giraudel

# March 8, 2013 at 3:40 am

Here is a flexbox version (modern browsers only): http://jsfiddle.net/wqD62/.

noahgelman

# March 8, 2013 at 1:47 pm

@Rugg

Yeah, sorry for wrong link.

Here below is a much more optimized version. Less CSS.