Did AI solve centering a <div> yet?
NO
Last updated: 2026-03-03
With all the jobs AI has taken, you'd think it could at least center a div on the first try. It can't. It will suggest flexbox, grid, absolute positioning, and margin: auto, sometimes all four at once.
Why hasn't AI solved centering a <div> yet?
AI writes CSS that looks correct in a code block and breaks in the browser. Centering depends on the parent's display mode, the child's sizing, whether you mean horizontal or vertical or both, and whether you're reading a 2024 blog post or a 2012 Stack Overflow answer. AI doesn't ask which. It just picks one and commits. Then you spend twenty minutes figuring out why your modal is pinned to the top left corner. Developers have been getting this wrong since 1996. AI is carrying on the tradition.
When will AI solve centering a <div>?
Probably never. The CSS spec keeps moving and AI keeps training on outdated answers. Even when it gets the centering right, the designer changes the layout the next day and you're back to square one. At some point you just accept that nothing is truly centered and get on with it.