ReactNative: how to center text?

Question

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
– itinance, Commented Jun 1, 2016 at 15:58
The title states React Native but the tag says React JS. Please fix this. — HackerDaGreat57
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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', }

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5 Comments

Ryan Walker Over a year ago

Doesn't work with a width unless you wrap it in a <View> with justifyContent: 'center', alignItems: 'center',

user889030 Over a year ago

your magic not worked however width: "100%", worked

Ghost.Idle Over a year ago

I only got it to work by changing it to "text-Align: center;"

sutan Over a year ago

2023: Types of property 'textAlign' are incompatible. Type 'string' is not assignable to type 'TextAlign

Omar Saade Over a year ago

perfect answer => " textAlign: 'center'

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

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

this should be expected : <Text style={{textAlignVertical: "center",textAlign: "center",}}>Hiiiz</Text>
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.
textAlignVertical is Android only. None of these solutions are aligning my text vertically, only horizontally.
justifyContent: "center" in the parent component was the magic sauce. Thanks!

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

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Set these styles on the image component:

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

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

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textAlignVertical: "center"

is the real magic.

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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>

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RuntimeError Over a year ago

Only solution that worked for me in terms of centering <Text> inside a <View> not just horizontally, but also vertically. Thank you!

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

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

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

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>

Thanks for the tip that inline styles must be enclosed in {{double-curly-braces}}.

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>

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answered Aug 12, 2019 at 7:35

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harmonica141 Over a year ago

Even if this may be the solution to the question, please add some more explanation so we all can learn.

Frederiko Ribeiro Over a year ago

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

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

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.

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"

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

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

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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Siddharth Over a year ago

Keys should be in camel case justifyContent and alignSelf

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

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

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

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> ) }

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" } }

user11716837 · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-23 12:20:39Z

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

then in text add textAlign:'center'

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

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used

textalign:center

at the view

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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

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.

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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starball Over a year ago

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.

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

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

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