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Centering an Element in HTML and CSS

I’m currently working on a web development project and facing a challenge in centering an HTML element or an image within a container using CSS. Despite trying several methods, I can’t seem to achieve the desired alignment.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css">
</head>
<body>
  <div class="container">
    <img src="example.jpg" alt="Center Me">
  </div>
</body>
</html>

i tried to put to html element text-align:center;
I’ve experimented with techniques like using text-align: center, margin: auto, flexbox, and grid, but none of them have worked as expected. The element remains off-center, and I’m struggling to figure out what’s going wrong.
I’ve created a minimal example to illustrate the issue, but I’m not sure what I’m missing in my CSS code. I’d appreciate any guidance or alternative approaches to centering an element or image within a container using CSS.

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  1. 0

    To center an image on a web page, you can use CSS to style the image and its container. Here’s how you can modify your HTML and CSS to center the image:

    body {
            display: flex;
            justify-content: center;
            align-items: center;
            height: 100vh; /* This ensures the content takes up the full viewport height */
            margin: 0; /* Remove default margin to prevent unwanted space */
        }

        img {
            max-width: 100%; /* Make sure the image doesn't exceed its container width */
        }
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  2. 0

    While the flexbox answer will work, it’s overkill. Centering an inline element within a block element is simple by just adding text-align:center to the parent block-level element.

    Note that text-align is an "inherited" property, which means that it will be inherited to all its descendants, so if you wanted (for example) everything on the page to be centered, you could apply the text-align:center to the body element and everything would then be centered. If you had an element that was an exception to that, you could apply the text-align property to just that element to override the inherited instruction.

    .container { text-align:center; }

.right { text-align:right; }
    <div class="container">
  <!-- The following image will be centered because it will
       inherit the `text-align:center` setting from its nearest
       block-level ancestor.  -->
  <img src="https://picsum.photos/200/300" alt="Center Me">
  
  <div class="right">
    <!-- The following image will be right justified because it will
         override the inherited `text-align:center` setting from its
         nearest by having another `text-align` property set on it  -->
    <img src="https://picsum.photos/200/300" alt="Center Me">
   </div>
</div>
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