ReactNative: how to center text?

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How to center Text in ReactNative both in horizontal and vertical?

I have an example application in rnplay.org where justifyContent="center" and alignItems="center" is not working: https://rnplay.org/apps/AoxNKQ

The text should being centered. And why is there a margin at the top between the text (yellow) and parent container?

Code:

'use strict';

var React = require('react-native');
var {
  AppRegistry,
  StyleSheet,
  Text,
  Image,
  View,
} = React;

var SampleApp = React.createClass({
  render: function() {
    return (
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <View style={styles.topBox}>
          <Text style={styles.headline}>
            lorem ipsum{'\n'}
            ipsum lorem lorem
          </Text>
        </View>
        <View style={styles.otherContainer}>
        </View>
      </View>
    );
  }
});

var styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    flexDirection: 'column',
    backgroundColor: 'red',
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center',
  },
  topBox: {
    flex: 1,
    flexDirection: 'row',
    backgroundColor: 'lightgray',
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center',
  },
  headline: {
    fontWeight: 'bold',
    fontSize: 18,
  marginTop: 0,
    width: 200,
    height: 80,
  backgroundColor: 'yellow',
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center',
  },
  otherContainer: {
    flex: 4,
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center',
    backgroundColor: 'green',
  },
});

AppRegistry.registerComponent('SampleApp', () => SampleApp);

module.exports = SampleApp;

WAAAA... textAlign ? i knew it would something really stupid.... you should post this as an answer — itinance, Commented Jun 1, 2016 at 15:58
The title states React Native but the tag says React JS. Please fix this. — HackerDaGreat57, Commented Oct 17, 2022 at 7:33

David Schumann · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-07 10:53:26Z

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From headline' style remove height, justifyContent and alignItems. It will center the text vertically. Add textAlign: 'center' and it will center the text horizontally.

  headline: {
    textAlign: 'center', // <-- the magic
    fontWeight: 'bold',
    fontSize: 18,
    marginTop: 0,
    width: 200,
    backgroundColor: 'yellow',
  }

edited May 7, 2018 at 10:53

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Doesn't work with a width unless you wrap it in a <View> with justifyContent: 'center', alignItems: 'center',
– Ryan Walker
Commented Nov 6, 2017 at 19:54
5

your magic not worked however width: "100%", worked
– user889030
Commented Jan 25, 2021 at 18:24
I only got it to work by changing it to "text-Align: center;"
– Ghost.Idle
Commented Feb 12, 2022 at 1:27
2023: Types of property 'textAlign' are incompatible. Type 'string' is not assignable to type 'TextAlign
– sutan
Commented Jan 9, 2023 at 11:12
perfect answer => " textAlign: 'center'
– Omar Saade
Commented Mar 7 at 10:29

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Ricardo · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-09 19:12:30Z

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Already answered but I'd like to add a bit more on the topic and different ways to do it depending on your use case.

You can add adjustsFontSizeToFit={true} (currently undocumented) to Text Component to auto adjust the size inside a parent node.

  <Text adjustsFontSizeToFit={true} numberOfLines={1}>Hiiiz</Text>

You can also add the following in your Text Component:

<Text style={{textAlignVertical: "center",textAlign: "center",}}>Hiiiz</Text>

Or you can add the following into the parent of the Text component:

<View style={{flex:1,justifyContent: "center",alignItems: "center"}}>
     <Text>Hiiiz</Text>
</View>

or both

 <View style={{flex:1,justifyContent: "center",alignItems: "center"}}>
     <Text style={{textAlignVertical: "center",textAlign: "center",}}>Hiiiz</Text>
</View>

or all three

 <View style={{flex:1,justifyContent: "center",alignItems: "center"}}>
     <Text adjustsFontSizeToFit={true} 
           numberOfLines={1} 
           style={{textAlignVertical: "center",textAlign: "center",}}>Hiiiz</Text>
</View>

It all depends on what you're doing. You can also checkout my full blog post on the topic

https://medium.com/@vygaio/how-to-auto-adjust-text-font-size-to-fit-into-a-nodes-width-in-react-native-9f7d1d68305b

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this should be expected : <Text style={{textAlignVertical: "center",textAlign: "center",}}>Hiiiz</Text>
– Tushar Pandey
Commented Jan 13, 2020 at 5:31
1

man you saved my 1.5 hours. I was trying to do same but couldn't until this answer as : textAlignVertical: "center", textAlign: "center" , as <Text/> Component Style.
– GD- Ganesh Deshmukh
Commented Mar 2, 2020 at 5:22
textAlignVertical is Android only. None of these solutions are aligning my text vertically, only horizontally.
– sudo
Commented Apr 12, 2020 at 17:00
justifyContent: "center" in the parent component was the magic sauce. Thanks!
– Forrest
Commented Feb 12, 2022 at 21:00

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mfluehr · Accepted Answer · 2023-01-10 20:04:31Z

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Set these styles on the image component:

{
  textAlignVertical: "center",
  textAlign: "center"
}

edited Jan 10, 2023 at 20:04

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Muzammil · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-14 06:53:50Z

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textAlignVertical: "center"

is the real magic.

answered Jul 14, 2018 at 6:53

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Mahdi Bashirpour · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-04 08:48:49Z

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Horizontal and Vertical center alignment

<View style={{flex: 1, justifyContent: 'center',alignItems: 'center'}}>
     <Text> Example Test </Text>
</View>

answered Sep 4, 2018 at 8:48

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Only solution that worked for me in terms of centering <Text> inside a <View> not just horizontally, but also vertically. Thank you!
– RuntimeError
Commented Jan 4, 2020 at 11:38

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Mahdi Bashirpour · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-13 13:22:49Z

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this is a example for Horizontal and Vertical alignment simultaneously

<View style={{width: 200, flexDirection: 'row',alignItems: 'center'}}>
     <Text style={{width: '100%',textAlign: 'center'}} />
</View>

answered May 13, 2018 at 13:22

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Thanks for the tip that inline styles must be enclosed in {{double-curly-braces}}.
– MarkHu
Commented May 25, 2018 at 22:04

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mfluehr · Accepted Answer · 2022-12-23 20:38:28Z

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<View style={{ backgroundColor: 'blue', justifyContent: 'center' }}>
  <Text style={{ fontSize: 25, textAlign: 'center' }}>A</Text>
</View>

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Omar bakhsh · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-12 02:51:17Z

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The following property can be used: {{alignItems: 'center'}} becaus you are using item <Text> not "string".

<View style={{alignItems: 'center'}}>
 <Text> Hello i'm centered text</Text>
</View>

edited Jul 12, 2021 at 2:51

answered Aug 12, 2019 at 7:35

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Even if this may be the solution to the question, please add some more explanation so we all can learn.
– harmonica141
Commented Aug 12, 2019 at 7:59
Please, improve it because you are using two asterisks to circulate the main correction but it's not clear and the other part is confuse
– Frederiko Ribeiro
Commented Oct 18, 2019 at 18:35

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DarkSuniuM · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-13 17:20:12Z

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You can use alignSelf property on Text component

{ alignSelf : "center" }

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Hardik Virani · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-14 05:31:35Z

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Wherever you have Text component in your page just you need to set style of the Text component.

 <Text style={{ textAlign: 'center' }}> Text here </Text>

you don't need to add any other styling property, this is spectacular magic it will set you text in center of the your UI.

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answered Apr 11, 2019 at 4:19

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Guillermo García · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-09 21:32:52Z

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Simple add

textAlign: "center"

in your styleSheet, that's it. Hope this would help.

edit: "center"

edited Oct 9, 2019 at 21:32

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Shahmeer Khan · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-26 10:21:07Z

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Okey , so its a basic problem , dont worry about this just write the <View> component and wrap it around the <Text> component

<View style={{alignItems: 'center'}}>
<Text> Write your Text Here</Text>
</View>

alignitems:center is a prop use to center items on crossaxis

justifycontent:'center' is a prop use to center items on mainaxis

answered Dec 26, 2020 at 10:21

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Chris Catignani · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-28 13:51:52Z

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Set in Parent view

justifyContent:center

and in child view alignSelf:center

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answered Jun 28, 2020 at 12:58

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Keys should be in camel case justifyContent and alignSelf
– Siddharth
Commented Jun 28, 2020 at 13:41

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David Schumann · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-07 11:44:49Z

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const styles = StyleSheet.create({
        navigationView: {
        height: 44,
        width: '100%',
        backgroundColor:'darkgray',
        justifyContent: 'center', 
        alignItems: 'center' 
    },
    titleText: {
        fontSize: 20,
        fontWeight: 'bold',
        color: 'white',
        textAlign: 'center',
    },
})


render() {
    return (
        <View style = { styles.navigationView }>
            <Text style = { styles.titleText } > Title name here </Text>
        </View>
    )

}

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Gunnar Karlsson · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-07 05:26:31Z

In addition to the use cases mentioned in the other answers:

To center text in the specific use case of a BottomTabNavigator, remember to set showIcon to false (even if you don't have icons in the TabNavigator). Otherwise the text will be pushed toward bottom of Tab.

For example:

const TabNavigator = createBottomTabNavigator({
  Home: HomeScreen,
  Settings: SettingsScreen
}, {
  tabBarOptions: {
    activeTintColor: 'white',
    inactiveTintColor: 'black',
    showIcon: false, //do this
    labelStyle: {
      fontSize: 20,
      textAlign: 'center',
    },
    tabStyle: {
      backgroundColor: 'grey',
      marginTop: 0,
      textAlign: 'center',
      justifyContent: 'center',
      textAlignVertical: "center"
    }
  }

user11716837user11716837 · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-23 12:20:39Z

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first add in parent view flex:1, justifyContent: 'center', alignItems: 'center'

then in text add textAlign:'center'

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Sanjib Suna · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-07 14:20:25Z

1

used

textalign:center

at the view

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Rob Johansen · Accepted Answer · 2023-05-03 00:50:11Z

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If you're running into this issue on Android, like I was, make sure to set includeFontPadding to false (documentation).

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General Grievance · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-24 14:47:02Z

You can use two approaches for this...

To make text align center horizontally, apply this Property (textAlign:"center"). Now to make the text align vertically, first check direction of flex. If flexDirection is column apply property (justifyContent:"center") and if flexDirection is row is row apply property (alignItems : "center") .
To Make text align center apply same property (textAlign:"center"). Now to make it align vertically make the hieght of the <Text> </Text> equal to view and then apply property (textAlignVertical: "center")...

Most Probably it will Work...

ocodo · Accepted Answer · 2022-09-17 05:53:59Z

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In many instances, ReactNative supports CSS style properties, names as camelCase instead of the standard CSS dasherized-lisp-style (aka kebab-case)

Which is the same as React/JSX.

The CSS property text-align has the direct equivalent: textAlign

So usually, it's worth trying the CSS property, converted to camelCase.

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Anujfresco Fresco · Accepted Answer · 2022-12-22 13:15:32Z

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<View style={{alignSelf:'center'}}>
<Text>React Native</Text>
</View>

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It would be nice to give a brief explanation of how this works / how it solves the problem, and how it's different than existing answers.
– starball
Commented Dec 24, 2022 at 3:27

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Gprakash · Accepted Answer · 2022-08-05 04:54:22Z

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headline: { textAlign: 'center',fontWeight: 'bold'}

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