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# Perfectly centering pixels is tricky
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To perfectly center a container (like a `<div>`) inside another container, both containers' sizes must have the same parity, in other words, both sizes must be either even or odd, in the direction of centering.
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Same thing happens if many containers are nested, and each of them need to be centered across its parent, they all need to be even or odd.
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Font makes things trickier. Let's suppose you want to center vertically a text inside an even container, and you may think that choosing an even `font-size` will do the trick, but if you choose a size like `14px` and a `line height` different than `1` or `2` (both options are unpleasant in most cases), then text's effective height will be odd, and text `height` parity will mismatch with its parent and will be impossible to center.
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## What led to learning this
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- Podcast: Full Stack Radio: 135: Lessons Learned Building Tailwind UI <https://fullstackradio.com/episodes/135-e8c69ea6>
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