CSS technique for a horizontal line with words in

Question

I'm trying to make a horizontal rule with some text in the middle. For example:

----------------------------------- my title here -----------------------------

Is there a way to do that in CSS? Without all the "-" dashes obviously.

Answer 1

I use a table layout to fill the sides dynamically and 0-height, absolute-position divs for dynamic vertical positioning:

• no hard-coded dimensions
• no images
• no pseudo-elements
• respects background
• control bar appearance

https://jsfiddle.net/eq5gz5xL/18/

I found that a little below true center looks best with text; this can be adjusted where the 55% is (taller height makes the bar lower). The appearance of the line can be changed where the border-bottom is.

HTML:

<div class="title">
  <div class="title-row">
    <div class="bar-container">
      <div class="bar"></div>
    </div>
    <div class="text">
      Title
    </div>
    <div class="bar-container">
      <div class="bar"></div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

CSS:

.title{
  display: table;
  width: 100%
  background: linear-gradient(to right, white, lightgray);
}
.title-row{
  display: table-row;
}
.bar-container {
  display: table-cell;
  position: relative;
  width: 50%;
}
.bar {
  position: absolute;
  width: 100%;
  top: 55%;
  border-bottom: 1px solid black;
}
.text {
  display: table-cell;
  padding-left: 5px;
  padding-right: 5px;
  font-size: 36px;
}

Answer 2

I am not too sure, but you could try using a horizontal rule and pushing the text above its top margin. You will need a fixed width on your paragraph tag and a background too. It's a little hacky and I don't know if it will work on all browsers, and you need to set the negative margin based on the size of the font. Works on chrome though.

<style>   
 p{ margin-top:-20px; background:#fff; width:20px;}
</style>

<hr><p>def</p>

Answer 3

After trying different solutions, I have come with one valid for different text widths, any possible background and without adding extra markup.

h1 {
  overflow: hidden;
  text-align: center;
}

h1:before,
h1:after {
  background-color: #000;
  content: "";
  display: inline-block;
  height: 1px;
  position: relative;
  vertical-align: middle;
  width: 50%;
}

h1:before {
  right: 0.5em;
  margin-left: -50%;
}

h1:after {
  left: 0.5em;
  margin-right: -50%;
}

<h1>Heading</h1>
<h1>This is a longer heading</h1>

I tested it in IE8, IE9, Firefox and Chrome. You can check it here http://jsfiddle.net/Puigcerber/vLwDf/1/

Answer 4

.hr-sect {
	display: flex;
	flex-basis: 100%;
	align-items: center;
	color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.35);
	margin: 8px 0px;
}
.hr-sect::before,
.hr-sect::after {
	content: "";
	flex-grow: 1;
	background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.35);
	height: 1px;
	font-size: 0px;
	line-height: 0px;
	margin: 0px 8px;
}

<div class="hr-sect">Text</div>

Answer 5

For me this solution works perfectly fine...

HTML

<h2 class="strikethough"><span>Testing Text</span></h2>

CSS

.strikethough {
 width:100%; 
 text-align:left; 
 border-bottom: 1px solid #bcbcbc; 
 overflow: inherit;
 margin:0px 0 30px;
 font-size: 16px;
 color:#757575;
 }
.strikethough span {
 background:#fff; 
 padding:0 20px 0px 0px;
 position: relative;
 top: 10px;
}

Answer 6

<div><span>text TEXT</span></div>

div { 
  height: 1px; 
  border-top: 1px solid black; 
  text-align: center; 
  position: relative; 
}
span { 
  position: relative; 
  top: -.7em; 
  background: white; 
  display: inline-block; 
}

Give the span a padding to make more space between the text and the line.

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/tUGrf/