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I am not into the CSS game anymore, if anything needs to be done I'd just go with whatever widgets any CSS framework offers, but why has it been so hard for so long to center things with CSS (I believe flexbox finally fixed it) ?

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Flexbox did fix it, and it's been available in Chrome since 2013, Firefox since 2014, and everything else since 2015. IE 11 supported enough of the 2012 syntax to be usable. Even IE 10 supports some of it, albeit poorly.

2015 ? Yeah, I think I remember hearing about flexbox around that time, also when I stopped doing any CSS work (which I had started around ~2000 I think).

I just throw a <center> in, it works well enough for most cases.

I prefer <center style="text-align: center;"> for maximum centeredness

I love that

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ce...

The <center> element is obsolete and is not in the HTML5 spec...

So? The browser doesn’t care.

You’re right of cause and centering is styling and it doesn’t belong in the html. It just that sometimes I really can’t be bothered with css and the center hr and a ton of br slips in, and it works well enough.

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