Title: Cannot center an image
Last modified: April 2, 2018

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# Cannot center an image

 *  Resolved [lauritasita](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lauritasita/)
 * (@lauritasita)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-center-an-image/)
 * [@karmatosed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karmatosed/) – Hey Guys,
 * The left and right image alignment is fine, but there are issues with center 
   alignment. It appears correctly in the visual editor, but when you publish the
   post and then view it, the image defaults to the left.
 * I’ve tested under the following conditions:
 * Theme: Weaver
    Browser: Firefox
 * Theme: Twentysixteen
    Browser: Firefox, Chrome
 * My Gutenberg version is 2.5.0 which I believe is current and I’ve been having
   this issue for almost two days.
 * Thank you for looking into this.

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 *  [mariushosting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marius84/)
 * (@marius84)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-center-an-image/#post-10151623)
 * 2 months after my first input about this problem they never solved it lost faith
   in gutenberg team.
 *  [mariushosting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marius84/)
 * (@marius84)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-center-an-image/#post-10155097)
 * ok they have solved the problem with version 2.6.0
 *  Thread Starter [lauritasita](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lauritasita/)
 * (@lauritasita)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-center-an-image/#post-10155573)
 * [@marius84](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marius84/) – Thank you for telling
   me. I just tested it out on one of my testing websites and it is functioning 
   the way it should.
 * Quite honestly, I don’t know if I’ll be using Gutenberg for a while because all
   my websites have static pages so they don’t change very often, but it’s nice 
   to know that it’s there if I want to change.
 *  [almcr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/almcr/)
 * (@almcr)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-center-an-image/#post-10319447)
 * not sure why this would have been solved in 2.6.0, if the theme CSS has not changed,
   perhaps gutenberg in 2.6.0 included code to style that class?
 * I think this points out one of the problems with using Gutenberg or any other
   page builder system. in gutenberg, when you add an image block and click on “
   align center”, all that gutenberg does with the image block is to add the class“
   aligncenter” to the image block code. it is then up to the theme code to process
   that class to actually center the image on the post or page. if the class “aligncenter”
   is not defined in the theme’s css, then the image will not be centered on the
   page or post when you are looking at it yourself. the image does not get centered
   by default or automatically.
 * I doubt that either Weaver or twentysixteen have a class of aligncenter defined
   in their CSS code, so the image will not get centered as you would expect it 
   to. somehow, you need to ensure that the CSS required to display your content
   matches that generated by gutenberg.
 * Al
 *  [bkjproductions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bkjproductions/)
 * (@bkjproductions)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-center-an-image/#post-10319706)
 * TwentySixteen does have an aligncenter, apparently, around line 1339 of **style.
   css**
 *     ```
       .aligncenter {
       	clear: both;
       	display: block;
       	margin: 0 auto 1.75em;
       }
       ```
   
 * I wonder is there a list of the css selectors that Gutenberg assumes?
    That would
   be handy to add to themes in future.

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