How to center things in textual. Textual has a very unique way of styling text user interfaces for the terminal using css. If you know css it feels natural.
@willmcgugan, has put together a great article on how to center things in textual
here the final result
``` python
from textual.app import App, ComposeResult
from textual.widgets import Static
QUOTE = "Could not find you in Seattle and no terminal is in operation at your classified address."
class CenterApp(App):
"""How to center things."""
CSS = """
Screen {
align: center middle;
}
#hello {
background: blue 50%;
border: wide white;
width: 40;
height: 9;
text-align: center;
content-align: center middle;
}
"""
def compose(self) -> ComposeResult:
yield Static(QUOTE, id="hello")
if __name__ == "__main__":
app = CenterApp()
app.run()
```
!!! note
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