Center text in a circle css3 issue

Question

I am trying to have circles with text in them. The issue is that when the font size gets big... the text overlaps the circle. How can I solve this issue?

.circle {
    display: inline-block;
    font-size: 42px;
}

.circle label {
    cursor:pointer;
    height: 200px;
    width: 200px;
    display: table-cell;
    text-align: center;
    vertical-align: middle;
    border-radius: 50%;
    background: yellow;
}

label input[type="checkbox"] {
    display:none;
}
input[type="checkbox"]:checked + span {
    color: #fff;
}

JSFiddle Demo

Answer 1

Keeping the circle shape (not oval / elipse) while resizing the div according to the content is not an easy task at all.

There's a technique that uses an absolute positioned pseudo-element with 100% width and 100% padding-bottom in order to keep the circle.. a circle.

It relies on the fact that percentages on padding-top and padding-bottom are calculated based on the width and not the height as most would expect, to prevent infinite loops. Sounds counter-intuitive, but it works.

Then there's the problem of the actual content not being 100% the circle height (neither is the wrapper, as the circle is absolute positioned), so centering the content is challenging as well. Once again, using % on padding-top so it gets calculated based on the width + negative transform: translateY will do the trick.

And last but not least, keeping the words on separate lines is a job for width: min-content.

All of that, results in this:

 body{ /*just to display circles inline and centered*/ display:flex; align-items:center; flex-wrap: wrap; } .circle{ padding:1em; } .inner{ /*centers the content*/ padding:100% 20px 0 20px; transform:translateY(-50%); /*sets the width as the biggest word*/ width:min-content; /*styling*/ text-align:center; color:white; font-weight:bold; font-family:sans-serif; /*sets the label as inline-block, so it doesn't take 100% width*/ display:inline-block; /*prevents clicks outside the circle from switching the checkbox*/ pointer-events:none; } .inner::before{ content:""; position:absolute; /*adjust for the padding + translateY on the element*/ top:50%; left:0; /*sets the width as 100% of the element*/ width:100%; /*sets the padding-bottom (and therefore, the height) as 100% the width of the element*/ padding-bottom:100%; /*styling*/ background-color:steelblue; border-radius:50%; /*puts it behind the content*/ z-index:-1; /*resets the pointer-events so clicking on the circle affects the checkbox */ pointer-events:auto; cursor:pointer; } 

 <input type="checkbox" id="check1"> <div class="circle"> <label for="check1" class="inner">Really biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig circle</label> </div> <input type="checkbox" id="check2"> <div class="circle"> <label for="check2" class="inner">small circle</label> </div> 

Notice I've adjusted the label to be the .inner labels, but set the pointer-events to none and then reset it on the pseudo-element, to prevent clicks outside the circle (but inside the box) from switching the checkboxes

Answer 2

You can add some padding to your css:

https://jsfiddle.net/jve51qmb/7/

.circle label {
  cursor: pointer;
  height: 200px;
  width: 200px;
  display: table-cell;
  text-align: center;
  padding: 20px 10px 10px 20px;
  vertical-align: middle;
  border-radius: 50%;
  background: yellow;
}

Answer 3

If you want it to be a full circle after the edit, add a padding of maybe 100px . That way the shape is still a circle afterwards because padding is being applied to all sides evenly.

 .circle label {
    padding: 100px; 
   }

this would be the same as

padding: 100px 100px 100px 100px;

padding: top, right, bottom, left.

Answer 4

Use the CSS property word-break: then you can set it value to break-all .

.circle label {
  word-break: break-all; 
}

See docs: https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_word-break.asp

 .circle { display: inline-block; font-size: 42px; } .circle label { cursor: pointer; height: 200px; width: 200px; display: table-cell; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; border-radius: 50%; background: yellow; word-break: break-all; } label input[type="checkbox"] { display: none; } input[type="checkbox"]:checked + span { color: #fff; font-size: 42px; } 

 <div class="circle"> <label> <input type="checkbox" id="Technology Operations" value="on"><span>Technology sdfsdfsdfsdf</span></label> </div> 

Answer 5

add padding and overflow attributes

.circle label {
  cursor: pointer;
  height: 200px;
  width: 200px;
  display: table-cell;
  text-align: center;
  vertical-align: middle;
  border-radius: 50%;
  background: yellow;
  overflow: hidden;  # add this
  padding: 10px;     # add this
}