React Native absolute positioning horizontal centre

position react-native flexbox absolute
Hasen picture Hasen · May 19, 2016 · Viewed 110.8k times · Source

It seems that with position:absolute in use an element cannot be centred using justifyContent or alignItems. There's a workaround to use marginLeft but does not display the same for all devices even using dimensions to detect height and width of device.

  bottom: {
    position: 'absolute',
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center',
    top: height*0.93,
    marginLeft: width*0.18,
  },
  bottomNav: {
    flexDirection: 'row',
  },

Answer

Stephen Horvath picture Stephen Horvath · Dec 6, 2016

Wrap the child you want centered in a View and make the View absolute. 

<View style={{position: 'absolute', top: 0, left: 0, right: 0, bottom: 0, justifyContent: 'center', alignItems: 'center'}}>
  <Text>Centered text</Text>
</View>

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