Justify-Center and Items-Center
While Anders' answer solves the problem for this particular case, I think it's important to note that using justify-center
and items-center
is circumstantial.
Let's have a look at one of the examples from the tailwind documentation.
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/tailwindcss/dist/tailwind.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<div class="flex justify-center bg-gray-100">
<div class="text-gray-800 text-center bg-gray-300 px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
<div class="text-gray-800 text-center bg-gray-300 px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
<div class="text-gray-800 text-center bg-gray-300 px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
</div>
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As we can see the above code centers the elements horizontally. The reason for this is because the justify-center class centers the element on the flex container's main axis.
This means that if we were to change the main axis to 'column' then we would get a different result.
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/tailwindcss/dist/tailwind.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<div class="flex flex-col justify-center bg-gray-100">
<div class="text-gray-800 text-center bg-gray-300 px-4 py-2 m-2">1</div>
<div class="text-gray-800 text-center bg-gray-300 px-4 py-2 m-2">2</div>
<div class="text-gray-800 text-center bg-gray-300 px-4 py-2 m-2">3</div>
</div>
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Justify-Center and Items-Center centers the elements on the main axis and the cross axis, and they can be used in place of each other. They are the opposites of each other and will produce different results depending on what the current main axis is.